{"id":"MUS2026-032","label":"BaAka roarer inside the elanda dance","people_or_site":"BaAka (Aka), Kenyé camp","country_current":"Central African Republic","historic_region":"Sangha forest","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Louis Sarno DAT #308 (PRM 1997.21.2.308), 124 minutes of BaAka music and soundscapes; the track notes for the elanda of 27 February 1987 at Kenyé record a bullroarer sounded during the dance (tracks 9-10).","function_summary":"Sounded in the elanda, the teenagers' dance: Sarno's tape catches the bullroarer whirring intermittently at the start of the polyphonic singing, and later a burst answered by a cheer — an open, mixed gathering, women singing throughout (PRM 1997.21.2.308, tracks 9-10, Kenyé, 27 Feb. 1987).","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"pitt_rivers","source_type":"ethnomusicology_field_recording","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-536526","page_or_plate":"1997.21.2.308","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Bayanga / Yandoumbé area anchor, Sangha-Mbaéré — Louis Sarno's documented recording base among the BaAka; the Kenyé camp itself is not independently located.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On a February afternoon in 1987, at the BaAka camp of Kenyé in the forests of the southwestern Central African Republic, Louis Sarno's tape recorder caught a bullroarer at work in the middle of the elanda, the teenagers' dance: men and women singing in interlocking polyphony, clapping woven against clapping, the roarer whirring in intermittently at the start — and later a burst of it answered by a cheer. Sarno, the American who spent thirty years among the BaAka recording their music, gave the tape with a thousand hours more to the Pitt Rivers Museum; here the instrument survives not as an object in a case but as a sound inside the music.","pull_quote":"men and women singing polyphony, interlocking polyphonic clapping, bullroarer being used intermittently at the start... bullroarer and cheer","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum sound archive, Louis Sarno DAT #308 (1997.21.2.308), track notes 9-10, elanda at Kenyé, 27 February 1987","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, sound archive 1997.21.2.308, Louis Sarno DAT #308, track notes 9-10, elanda at Kenyé, 27 February 1987","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-536526","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, sound archive 1997.21.2.308, Louis Sarno DAT #308, track notes 9-10, elanda at Kenyé, 27 February 1987","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, sound archive 1997.21.2.308, Louis Sarno DAT #308, track notes 9-10, elanda at Kenyé, 27 February 1987","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Louis Sarno DAT #308 (PRM 1997.21.2.308), 124 minutes of BaAka music and soundscapes; the track notes for the elanda of 27 February 1987 at Kenyé record a bullroarer sounded during the dance (tracks 9-10).","function_display":"Sounded in the elanda, the teenagers' dance: Sarno's tape catches the bullroarer whirring intermittently at the start of the polyphonic singing, and later a burst answered by a cheer — an open, mixed gathering, women singing throughout (PRM 1997.21.2.308, tracks 9-10, Kenyé, 27 Feb. 1987).","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"baaka","display_name":"BaAka roarer inside the elanda dance","image":{"full":"assets/objects/mqb/mqb_71-1995-23-4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/mqb/thumbs/mqb_71-1995-23-4_thumb.jpg","credit":"© musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (71.1995.23.4)","license":"© musée du quai Branly — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1995.23.4","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Aka epépé leaf lashed to a whirling rod, Lobaye","pool_id":"auto-mqb--mqb_71-1995-23-4"},"slug":"mus2026-032-baaka-aka-kenye-camp"}