{"id":"SOENGAS2010-001","label":"Bakoya namikote of Imbong","people_or_site":"Bakoya (Koya), Imbong","country_current":"Gabon","historic_region":"Ogooué-Ivindo, Département de la Zadié (Mekambo area)","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"namikote / namakote","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French; Koya","object_description":"A bullroarer called namikote or namakote in Koya; construction not described.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"soengas2010_bakoya","source_type":"academic_thesis","source_url":"https://theses.hal.science/tel-00480270","page_or_plate":"Annexe 3 p. 16; main text pp. 116, 181","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Imbong village (GeoNames 2400318), where the Koya lexicon was checked; no performance locality given","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Bakoya of Imbong, in the forests of north-eastern Gabon, call the bullroarer namikote or namakote. It sits in their music beside a small tam-tam and a great drum, a harp-zither and a mouth bow, a rattle made from two seeds of the ukaka tree, and a square of beams that musicians beat with sticks while men and women dance. The Bakoya were famed net-hunters and spear-hunters of the red river hog, and on the eve of a great hunt everyone gathered for a ceremony led by the masters of the hunt.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"namikote / namakote: rhombe, bullroarer (Koya).","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":"Beatriz Soengas López, La subsistance des Pygmées Bakoya à l’épreuve de l’agriculture, doctoral thesis, MNHN (2010), annexe 3 p. 16; pp. 116, 181","url":"https://theses.hal.science/tel-00480270"}],"source_citations":"Beatriz Soengas López, La subsistance des Pygmées Bakoya à l’épreuve de l’agriculture, doctoral thesis, MNHN (2010), annexe 3 p. 16; pp. 116, 181","source_display":"Beatriz Soengas López, La subsistance des Pygmées Bakoya à l’épreuve de l’agriculture, doctoral thesis, MNHN (2010), annexe 3 p. 16; pp. 116, 181","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer called namikote or namakote in Koya; construction not described.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bakoya","display_name":"Bakoya namikote of Imbong","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-008_malcolm1923_fig1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-008_malcolm1923_fig1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Malcolm’s printed Figure 1: two Eghap sound devices, a humming instrument above and a bull-roarer below, shown with their cords or supports.","credit":"L. W. G. Malcolm, JRAI 53 (1923), fig. 1","license":"Public domain (published 1923)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.106142","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Malcolm's published line drawing of the Eghap rig (JRAI 53, 1923, fig. 1)","pool_id":"auto-SUBSAH-008_malcolm1923_fig1","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"soengas2010-001-bakoya-koya-imbong"}