{"id":"MUS2026-213","label":"N'Yoro Oekum'","people_or_site":"Lagos (people unrecorded)","country_current":"Nigeria","historic_region":"Lagos, Nigeria","macroregion":"Africa / West Africa","local_name":"N'YORO OEKUM'","source_term":"Bull-roarer","source_language":"English (museum-card local name unglossed)","object_description":"A carved wooden blade, 137 x 14 mm, very narrow and tapered, with a single long cord attached at its squared terminal end.","function_summary":"A ceremonial and religious musical instrument in the Pitt Rivers Museum classification; the specific rite, player and occasion are not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1924_2_36_lagos_nyoro_oekum","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39564","page_or_plate":"PRM 1924.2.36 (prm-object-39564)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Lagos city anchor from the record's sole geographical field; the museum gives no quarter, village, findspot or use site, so the point locates the recorded place of origin and nothing narrower.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wooden blade no wider than a finger, swung on a long cord, carried its name out of Lagos: N'YORO OEKUM'. It belonged to ceremonial and religious music, and the name travelled with it to Oxford in 1924, apostrophes and all.","pull_quote":"N'YORO OEKUM'","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1924.2.36","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1924.2.36 (Lagos, Nigeria; collected by R. P. Wild)","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39564","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39564"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1924.2.36 (Lagos, Nigeria; collected by R. P. Wild)","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1924.2.36 (Lagos, Nigeria; collected by R. P. Wild)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A carved wooden blade, 137 x 14 mm, very narrow and tapered, with a single long cord attached at its squared terminal end.","function_display":"A ceremonial and religious musical instrument in the Pitt Rivers Museum classification; the specific rite, player and occasion are not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lagos","display_name":"N'Yoro Oekum'","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-213_mus2026-213-prm-1924-2-36.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-213_mus2026-213-prm-1924-2-36_thumb.jpg","alt":"A narrow dark bullroarer blade from Lagos, pointed at one end and tied to a long cord loop, with Pitt Rivers Museum number 1924.2.36.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1924.2.36","license":"Rights reserved (© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://prd-online.glamdigital.io/v2/item/prm-object-39564","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bullroarer with cord, Lagos, made before 1924."},"slug":"mus2026-213-lagos-people-unrecorded"}