{"id":"SCHEBESTA1948-002","label":"Tore comes for the bananas","people_or_site":"Efé (Tore society), reported at Machongani's Balese village","country_current":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","historic_region":"Ituri forest, Belgian Congo; Machongani's Balese village (Schebesta's second journey)","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"pahudjuhudju","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Not recorded.","function_summary":"Said to drone during the Efé Tore procession into a farming village: the Efé first brought game, the villagers' wives were told to hide because Tore was coming, and the Efé took bananas from the plantations to store in their Tore hut.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"schebesta1948_efe_tore_banana_procession","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/MEMOIRES_VERHANDELINGEN/Sciences_morales_politique/Hum.Sc.%28IRCB%29_T.II%2C2_SCHEBESTA%20P._Bambuti-pygm%C3%A4en%20vom%20Ituri_1948.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 506 (PDF p. 232); pp. 481–482","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Modern Machongani on the RN4 road (Sesa, Irumu territory, Ituri; Nominatim), in southern Balese country; identity with Schebesta's 1930s Machongani village is likely but not proven.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"First came the gift of meat. When the Efé Tore society meant to visit a farming village, the forest hunters sent game ahead; the villagers then ordered their wives to hide, because Tore was coming. In a great din the Efé pushed into the banana groves, cut as many bunches as they needed and carried them off to their Tore hut. Under the noise droned the pahudjuhudju. Tore was the forest being whose name the men’s society bore, and among the neighbouring Balese the roarer, flute, droning pot and great wooden trumpet sounded together were simply called Tore.","pull_quote":"dass das Dröhnen des Pahudjuhudju (Schwirrholz) den Tore-Zug begleite","pull_quote_translation":"that the droning of the pahudjuhudju (bullroarer) accompanied the Tore procession","pull_quote_cite":"Paul Schebesta, Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri II-2 (1948), p. 506","term_gloss":"pahudjuhudju (also hudjuhudju): the Ituri bullroarer name Schebesta records among the Balese and here for the Efé Tore procession. Tore: the forest being of the men's society; at p. 481–482 the whole set of sacred noise instruments is called Tore.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation","women_taboo","agriculture"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Paul Schebesta, Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri, vol. II-2 (Brussels, 1948), pp. 481–482, 506","url":"https://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/MEMOIRES_VERHANDELINGEN/Sciences_morales_politique/Hum.Sc.%28IRCB%29_T.II%2C2_SCHEBESTA%20P._Bambuti-pygm%C3%A4en%20vom%20Ituri_1948.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Paul Schebesta, Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri, vol. II-2 (Brussels, 1948), pp. 481–482, 506","source_display":"Paul Schebesta, Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri, vol. II-2 (Brussels, 1948), pp. 481–482, 506","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Not recorded.","function_display":"Said to drone during the Efé Tore procession into a farming village: the Efé first brought game, the villagers' wives were told to hide because Tore was coming, and the Efé took bananas from the plantations to store in their Tore hut.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"Tore comes for the bananas","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39561.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39561_thumb.jpg","alt":"A slender dark wooden blade tapering toward its ends, with white cord wound around the middle and trailing in loose loops.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1985.18.21)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39561","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Slender dark wooden blade pointed at both ends, with white cord","pool_id":"auto-prm--prm_39561","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"schebesta1948-002-efe-tore-society-reported-at-machongani-s-balese-village"}