{"id":"MUS2026-176","label":"Fali Bao Tinguelin Tadogbel funeral and initiation bullroarer","people_or_site":"Fali of Bao / Tinguelin","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"Bao / Tinguelin / Benoue / northern Cameroon","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"Tadogbel","source_term":"Rhombe","source_language":"French / Fali term","object_description":"Thin pointed iron blade, 11 x 1.9 x 0.3 cm and 16 g, its broad end drawn into a short neck and lug; no cord survives.","function_summary":"Used at elders' funerals and during initiation.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mqb_71_1938_46_677_fali_tadogbel","source_type":"museum_collection_record","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1938.46.677","page_or_plate":"object 71.1938.46.677; before 1938 | Chombart de Lauwe 1937 pp. 64-65; Encyclopédie coloniale 1951 p. 95","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Tinguelin massif anchor; historical Bao/Baou entries in Benoue conflict, so this is not claimed as the exact village point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Bao, the iron Tadogbel sounded at elders' funerals and during initiation. The surviving blade is only eleven centimetres long, a small metal voice set apart from the wooden Uni used by Fali boys elsewhere when the red millet began to ripen. Among the Fali of Bori the roar even named an ancestor. Hidden from women under a heavy slab lay a stone, the grandfather of the rain-priest, honoured with sacrifice; it was called Ō \"in memory of the noise of the bull-roarer that is whirled at the time of initiation.\"","pull_quote":"Sert pour les enterrements des vieux et au cours de l'initiation.","pull_quote_translation":"Used at elders' funerals and during initiation.","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.46.677","term_gloss":"Tadogbel: the Fali name for the Bao (Tinguelin) rhombe.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","death_rebirth","weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.46.677, Fali, Bao (Tinguelin), Mission Sahara-Cameroun, 1936–1937","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1938.46.677","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022403/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1938.46.677"},{"citation":"Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, “Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara (Cameroun Nord),” Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7(1) (1937), pp. 64–65","url":"https://www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0037-9166_1937_num_7_1_1623","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250429034821/https://www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0037-9166_1937_num_7_1_1623"},{"citation":"Encyclopédie coloniale et maritime, vol. 7, Cameroun-Togo (1951), p. 95.","url":"https://e.lavoisier.fr/produit/446269/9782402518727/cameroun-togo","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022653/https://e.lavoisier.fr/produit/446269/9782402518727/cameroun-togo"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.46.677, Fali, Bao (Tinguelin), Mission Sahara-Cameroun, 1936–1937; Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, “Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara (Cameroun Nord),” Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7(1) (1937), pp. 64–65; Encyclopédie coloniale et maritime, vol. 7, Cameroun-Togo (1951), p. 95.","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.46.677, Fali, Bao (Tinguelin), Mission Sahara-Cameroun, 1936–1937; Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, “Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara (Cameroun Nord),” Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7(1) (1937), pp. 64–65; Encyclopédie coloniale et maritime, vol. 7, Cameroun-Togo (1951), p. 95.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin pointed iron blade, 11 x 1.9 x 0.3 cm and 16 g, its broad end drawn into a short neck and lug; no cord survives.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"fali bao","display_name":"Fali Bao Tinguelin Tadogbel funeral and initiation bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/MUS2026-176_mqb_71-1938-46-677.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/thumbs/MUS2026-176_mqb_71-1938-46-677_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.46.677","license":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&value=71.1938.46.677","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Pointed iron Tadogbel blade with a small lug at its broad end, Fali, northern Cameroon."},"slug":"mus2026-176-fali-of-bao-tinguelin"}