{"id":"MUS2026-158","label":"Yoruba Abomey eke bullroarer","people_or_site":"Yoruba / Abomey region","country_current":"Benin","historic_region":"Abomey region / Zou Department / Dahomey","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"Eke","source_term":"Rhombe","source_language":"French / Yoruba term","object_description":"Long narrow flat wooden blade, 37 x 3.4 x 1 cm and 52 g, with one terminal suspension hole. No cord survives in the photograph.","function_summary":"A musical instrument; no particular use recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mqb_71_1949_93_4_abomey_eke","source_type":"museum_collection_record","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1949.93.4","page_or_plate":"object 71.1949.93.4; entered 19 December 1949","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Abomey city anchor because the museum records only Abomey region.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A single terminal hole is the only clue to how this spare, narrow blade from the Abomey region once hung and swung. The Musée de l'Homme catalogued it in 1949 simply as Eke, a musical instrument — brought back by a traveling photographer named Pierre Verger, whose West African journeys would end three years later in his own initiation at Ketu as Fatumbi, a priest of Ifa.","pull_quote":"Instrument de musique.","pull_quote_translation":"Musical instrument.","pull_quote_cite":"Quai Branly object 71.1949.93.4","term_gloss":"Eke: the Yoruba name for this blade.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac object 71.1949.93.4 / Musée de l'Homme 49.93.4; donated by Pierre Verger","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1949.93.4","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022731/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1949.93.4"}],"source_citations":"Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac object 71.1949.93.4 / Musée de l'Homme 49.93.4; donated by Pierre Verger","source_display":"Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac object 71.1949.93.4 / Musée de l'Homme 49.93.4; donated by Pierre Verger","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Long narrow flat wooden blade, 37 x 3.4 x 1 cm and 52 g, with one terminal suspension hole. No cord survives in the photograph.","function_display":"A musical instrument; no particular use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"yoruba","display_name":"Yoruba Abomey eke bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-158_mus2026-158-mqb-71-1949-93-4-abomey-eke.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-158_mus2026-158-mqb-71-1949-93-4-abomey-eke_thumb.jpg","alt":"Yoruba eke from the Abomey region: a long, narrow, plain wooden blade with rounded ends and a small hole near one end.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1949.93.4","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=71.1949.93.4","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Yoruba eke from the Abomey region, Benin; narrow wooden blade with a terminal hole."},"slug":"mus2026-158-yoruba-abomey-region"}