{"id":"MUS2026-366","label":"Zinder blade on a plaited leaf cord","people_or_site":"Hausa","country_current":"Niger","historic_region":"Zinder (Damagaram), Niger","macroregion":"Africa / West Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"svingtræ","source_language":"Danish","object_description":"Plain flat wooden slat, 16.5 × 3.6 × 0.3 cm, uncarved and unpainted, split rough at the butt and bored once at the broad end; a short leather thong ties it to a long cord plaited from strips of leaf.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"natmus_g3159","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/75984","page_or_plate":"G.3159; object 75984","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Zinder town, the collecting locality named by the catalogue; no quarter or market is recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Sixteen centimetres of plain wood, split rough at the butt and bored once at the broad end, knotted by a leather thong to a long cord plaited from strips of leaf. Nothing on it is carved or coloured; it is finished only far enough to bite the air. It left Zinder, seat of the old Hausa sultanate of Damagaram, with Ole Olufsen’s Niger expedition, the date 9 November 1927 written on its back. Elsewhere in Hausaland bullroarers called in the hunting dogs at Katsina and were boys’ playthings at Daura, where the spirit Uwar-Dawa answered the old men at sowing time and no bullroarer was allowed to speak for her.","pull_quote":"svingtræ","pull_quote_translation":"swing-wood: bullroarer","pull_quote_cite":"Nationalmuseet, object 75984 (G.3159)","term_gloss":"","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":"Nationalmuseet, Etnografisk Samling (Copenhagen), inv. G.3159, object 75984; Ole Olufsen's Niger Expedition, 1927–1928","url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/75984","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013035453/https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/75984"}],"source_citations":"Nationalmuseet, Etnografisk Samling (Copenhagen), inv. G.3159, object 75984; Ole Olufsen's Niger Expedition, 1927–1928","source_display":"Nationalmuseet, Etnografisk Samling (Copenhagen), inv. G.3159, object 75984; Ole Olufsen's Niger Expedition, 1927–1928","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Plain flat wooden slat, 16.5 × 3.6 × 0.3 cm, uncarved and unpainted, split rough at the butt and bored once at the broad end; a short leather thong ties it to a long cord plaited from strips of leaf.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hausa","display_name":"Zinder blade on a plaited leaf cord","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-366_G3159_natmus_a.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-366_G3159_natmus_a_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kathrine Segel / Nationalmuseet, Denmark (G.3159)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/75984 (asset/336777, asset/336778)","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Zinder blade with its leather thong and long plaited leaf cord.","last_modified":"2026-09-13","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-366_G3159_natmus_b.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-366_G3159_natmus_b_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kathrine Segel / Nationalmuseet, Denmark (G.3159)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The reverse, inked by the collectors: Zinder, 9 November 1927."}]},"slug":"mus2026-366-hausa"}