{"id":"MUS2026-149","label":"Amvam Fang evuntere bullroarer","people_or_site":"Fang (Amvam)","country_current":"Gabon","historic_region":"Woleu-Ntem / Oyem","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"evuntere","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"A leaf-shaped wooden blade, its cord knotted through a hole at the broad end.","function_summary":"Sounded as a bogey to frighten small children into good behaviour.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mimo_matg60_01_051_evuntere","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_GAB_GAB483656/evuntere","page_or_plate":"MATG60.01.051; Tessmann 1913, pp. 287-288, fig. 86","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"MIMO-published GeoNames point for Amvam village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Not a secret-society voice but a household terror. After dark, Fang men and older boys whirled a slat like this on its cord until its eerie drone became the cry of the edžībŏ'ngo, the \"child-eater\" — the bogeyman conjured to frighten unruly children into obedience. Günter Tessmann, who lived among the Fang around 1908, pointedly filed the roarer not with their musical instruments but among the stamping noise-sticks parents used to discipline the young. This specimen was made near Oyem before 1960.","pull_quote":"kōkō-boṅgo, d. h. böser Mann für die Kinder; er ist dasselbe, was bei uns der „schwarze Mann“ für unsere Kinder ist; im besonderen heißt das Schwirrholz so.","pull_quote_translation":"kōkō-boṅgo, that is, the bad man for children; he is what the bogeyman is for our own children at home; the bullroarer in particular is called this.","pull_quote_cite":"Günter Tessmann, Die Pangwe, Bd. II (1913), p. 335 n. 1","term_gloss":"evuntere: the Fang name for this bullroarer.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée des Arts et Traditions du Gabon, inv. MATG60.01.051, 'evuntere' (Fang, Amvam, Woleu-Ntem; before 1960), record on Musical Instrument Museums Online; Günter Tessmann, Die Pangwe, Bd. II (Berlin: Wasmuth, 1913), pp. 287–288, fig. 86","url":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_GAB_GAB483656/evuntere","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013021821/https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_GAB_GAB483656/evuntere"}],"source_citations":"Musée des Arts et Traditions du Gabon, inv. MATG60.01.051, 'evuntere' (Fang, Amvam, Woleu-Ntem; before 1960), record on Musical Instrument Museums Online; Günter Tessmann, Die Pangwe, Bd. II (Berlin: Wasmuth, 1913), pp. 287–288, fig. 86","source_display":"Musée des Arts et Traditions du Gabon, inv. MATG60.01.051, 'evuntere' (Fang, Amvam, Woleu-Ntem; before 1960), record on Musical Instrument Museums Online; Günter Tessmann, Die Pangwe, Bd. II (Berlin: Wasmuth, 1913), pp. 287–288, fig. 86","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A leaf-shaped wooden blade, its cord knotted through a hole at the broad end.","function_display":"Sounded as a bogey to frighten small children into good behaviour.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"fang","display_name":"Amvam Fang evuntere bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-149_mus2026-149-amvam-fang-evuntere.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-149_mus2026-149-amvam-fang-evuntere_thumb.jpg","alt":"Fang evuntere from Amvam, Gabon, made before 1960: a broad, weathered wooden blade with a coarse cord tied at one end and small holes across its face.","credit":"Musée des Arts et Traditions du Gabon / MIMO, MATG60.01.051","license":"Rights reserved; reuse licence unspecified. MIMO record marked LIBRE in preserved July 2026 capture; rehosted for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_GAB_GAB483656/evuntere","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Fang evuntere from Amvam, Gabon, made before 1960."},"slug":"mus2026-149-fang-amvam"}