{"id":"MUS2026-094","label":"Imbakiyam, voice of the Sô emergence","people_or_site":"Mangisa","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"Sa'a, Lekie, Centre Region","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"Imbakiyam","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Mangisa rhombe from Sa'a, local name Imbakiyam (Quai Branly 71.1931.74.2802).","function_summary":"Sounded at the sortie de l'ésanso, the emergence from the initiation lodge.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"europe_direct","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2802","page_or_plate":"object record 213116 (Quai Branly API)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Swung at the sortie de l'ésanso — the emergence from the esam sô, the initiation lodge — this rhombe, Imbakiyam, voiced the moment a Mangisa boy came back a man. In the great Beti rite of Sô, candidates were driven into a forest sanctuary, beaten, made to crawl through thorns, and ritually \"buried\"; months later, painted white, they circled home reborn. The roarer's droning cry belonged to that threshold, a men's mystery sealed against women and the uninitiated, from the Lékié forests around Sa'a.","pull_quote":"sortie de l'ésanso","pull_quote_translation":"exit/emergence from the ésanso","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2802","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2802 (Mangisa rhombe, Imbakiyam)","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2802","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013130206/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2802"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2802 (Mangisa rhombe, Imbakiyam)","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2802 (Mangisa rhombe, Imbakiyam)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Mangisa rhombe from Sa'a, local name Imbakiyam (Quai Branly 71.1931.74.2802).","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mangisa","display_name":"Imbakiyam, voice of the Sô emergence","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-094_mus2026-094-mqb-71-1931-74-2802-mangisa-.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-094_mus2026-094-mqb-71-1931-74-2802-mangisa-_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mangisa Imbakiyam from Sa’a, Cameroon: a broad leaf-shaped wooden blade with fibre cord through one end and looping across its face.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2802","license":"Rights reserved (© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac); authorization required for reproduction; proposed for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&value=71.1931.74.2802","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Mangisa Imbakiyam, Sa’a, Cameroon; wooden blade and fibre cord."},"slug":"mus2026-094-mangisa"}