{"id":"MUS2026-096","label":"Guri, a voice of Afwi","people_or_site":"Toma","country_current":"Guinea","historic_region":"Nzerekore","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"Guri","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Toma rhombe from Louma, called Guri.","function_summary":"Sounded during initiations and the long forest retreat.","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=71.1933.40.188","page_or_plate":"object record 217063 (Quai Branly API)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Its roar was one voice of the Afwi — the great bush spirit whose \"multiple voice, its secret incarnations\" fills the Toma sacred forest, where the drum is forbidden and only the spirit may sound. Swung during initiations and the long forest retreat, this rhombe, called Guri, was made to be heard and never seen: women and the bilakoro, the uninitiated boys, were shut in the dark of their huts while the masks came out only to frighten them. Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau talked his way into that forest in 1953 to hear it.","pull_quote":"usage pendant les initiations","pull_quote_translation":"use during initiations","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1933.40.188","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, 71.1933.40.188 (Toma rhombe, Guri)","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1933.40.188","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013130255/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1933.40.188"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1933.40.188 (Toma rhombe, Guri)","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1933.40.188 (Toma rhombe, Guri)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Toma rhombe from Louma, called Guri.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"toma","display_name":"Guri, a voice of Afwi","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-096_qb_217063_guri.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-096_qb_217063_guri_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Guri: a softwood blade tapering to a point, with a small pierced diamond-shaped terminal for its cord at the opposite end.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1933.40.188 (coll. Henri Labouret, entered 1933)","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1933.40.188","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Guri itself — a softwood blade tapering to a point, the diamond-shaped terminal that seats its cord at the other end."},"slug":"mus2026-096-toma"}