{"id":"MUS2026-099","label":"Bamba child's toy roarer","people_or_site":"Bamba","country_current":"Gabon","historic_region":"Okondja, Haut-Ogooue","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Bamba rhombe from Okondja (Quai Branly 71.1935.80.128).","function_summary":"A child's toy: jouet d'enfant.","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=71.1935.80.128","page_or_plate":"object record 268629 (Quai Branly API)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Swung on a cord, this poker-worked slat of wood — long as a forearm, a mere thirty-four grams — hummed and whirred in a child's hands in the forest towns around Okondja. When it left eastern Gabon before 1935, only two words travelled with it: jouet d'enfant, a child's toy. Among the Bamba this bullroarer was simply a plaything that sang.","pull_quote":"Jouet d'enfant.","pull_quote_translation":"Child's toy.","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, inv. 71.1935.80.128","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1935.80.128 (Bamba/Okondja rhombe)","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1935.80.128","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013130609/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1935.80.128"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1935.80.128 (Bamba/Okondja rhombe)","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1935.80.128 (Bamba/Okondja rhombe)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bamba rhombe from Okondja (Quai Branly 71.1935.80.128).","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bamba","display_name":"Bamba child's toy roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-099_mus2026-099-mqb-71-1935-80-128-bamba-oko.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-099_mus2026-099-mqb-71-1935-80-128-bamba-oko_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1935.80.128","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=71.1935.80.128","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bamba child’s rhombe, Okondja, Gabon; pyrograved wooden blade and cord."},"slug":"mus2026-099-bamba"}