{"id":"MUS2026-381","label":"Dogon Ireli miniature imina na","people_or_site":"Dogon","country_current":"Mali","historic_region":"Ireli, Bandiagara Escarpment","macroregion":"Africa / West Africa","local_name":"imina na","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A small 220 × 55 × 8 mm senge-wood slat with its cord still attached.","function_summary":"The collector's record calls it the mother or great mask and connects its sound to men's funerals, Dama night warnings and Sigi initiation in groups of three notes.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"horniman_2000_46","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/2000.46/","page_or_plate":"2000.46","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Ireli village anchor from the exact record.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Small enough to look almost modest, this slat from Ireli, on the Bandiagara escarpment, still has its cord. Its name was larger than it: imina na, the mother or great mask. It sounded at men's funerals, as a warning in the nights of the Dama, and at the Sigi, when three instruments made three notes together.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"imina na: mother mask or great mask in the collector's record.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","snake","initiation","death_rebirth"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Horniman Museum 2000.46; senge wood and cord; 220 × 55 × 8 mm","url":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/2000.46/"}],"source_citations":"Horniman Museum 2000.46; senge wood and cord; 220 × 55 × 8 mm","source_display":"Horniman Museum 2000.46; senge wood and cord; 220 × 55 × 8 mm","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small 220 × 55 × 8 mm senge-wood slat with its cord still attached.","function_display":"The collector's record calls it the mother or great mask and connects its sound to men's funerals, Dama night warnings and Sigi initiation in groups of three notes.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dogon","display_name":"Dogon Ireli miniature imina na","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_19/MUS2026-381_horniman_2000-46.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_19/MUS2026-381_horniman_2000-46_thumb.jpg","alt":"Small pale wooden slat, rounded at one end, with a long twisted cord knotted through a hole at the other end.","credit":"Horniman Museum and Gardens, 2000.46","source_page":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/2000.46/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Ireli slat itself, senge wood, 22 cm, its cord still tied through the hole."},"slug":"mus2026-381-dogon"}