{"id":"MUS2026-159","label":"Garoua circumcision bullroarer","people_or_site":"Garoua site; catalog culture Kirdi and Peul, unresolved","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"Garoua / Bénoué Department / Northern Cameroon","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Rhombe","source_language":"French; no local term recorded","object_description":"Wooden blade, 27.5 x 7 x 2 cm and 52 g, with a long plant-fiber cord and separate wooden hand grip, preserved together.","function_summary":"Made by Maunde for circumcision.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mqb_71_1931_74_2654_garoua_circumcision","source_type":"museum_collection_record","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2654","page_or_plate":"object 71.1931.74.2654; acquired 30 January 1932","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Garoua municipal anchor; the catalog records the city but not a collection address or rite location.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In early 1932, while the Dakar-Djibouti mission's musicologist recorded reed pipes and drums around Garoua, a man named Maunde made this bullroarer for the collectors: blade, plant-fibre cord, and wooden hand grip, still together. Its voice belonged to circumcision. Garoua was a Fulani river port on the Bénoué, a crossroads of Kirdi and Fulbe worlds.","pull_quote":"Pour la circoncision","pull_quote_translation":"For circumcision.","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2654","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2654 (Musée de l'Homme 31.74.2654); made by Maunde and obtained at Garoua by the Mission Dakar-Djibouti on 30 January 1932","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2654","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022223/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1931.74.2654"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2654 (Musée de l'Homme 31.74.2654); made by Maunde and obtained at Garoua by the Mission Dakar-Djibouti on 30 January 1932","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2654 (Musée de l'Homme 31.74.2654); made by Maunde and obtained at Garoua by the Mission Dakar-Djibouti on 30 January 1932","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden blade, 27.5 x 7 x 2 cm and 52 g, with a long plant-fiber cord and separate wooden hand grip, preserved together.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"garoua site","display_name":"Garoua circumcision bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-159_leiris1934-001-mqb-71-1931-74-2654-garou.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-159_leiris1934-001-mqb-71-1931-74-2654-garou_thumb.jpg","alt":"Garoua circumcision rhombe, collected in 1932: a pale wooden blade with dark angular markings, cord wrapped around one end and a short stick lashed lengthwise against it.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (71.1931.74.2654)","license":"Rights reserved (© musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/212919","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Circumcision rhombe from Garoua, collected 1932."},"slug":"mus2026-159-garoua-site-catalog-culture-kirdi-and-peul-unresolved"}