{"id":"SPRUTE2023-001","label":"Maka children's whirring toy","people_or_site":"Maka, eastern Cameroon","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"East Cameroon forest (Haut-Nyong), German Kamerun","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz, Kinderspielzeug","source_language":"German","object_description":"A bullroarer; materials and dimensions not recorded.","function_summary":"A children's toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"linden_054515_maka_schwirrholz","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-17877","page_or_plate":"Sprute 2023 inventory p. 467 (PDF p. 468), inv. 054515","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Abong-Mbang (Haut-Nyong, East Region; Nominatim), a representative point in Maka country; the inventory names the people, not a village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Maka of Cameroon’s eastern forest, the bullroarer was a plaything: a whirring toy for children. This one left Maka country in the years when German rule was reaching into the eastern forest in the collection of Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz, who also brought away Maka spears and powder horns, and it reached Stuttgart in 1907 labelled simply “whirring wood, children’s toy.”","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Schwirrholz: German, 'whirring wood', the bullroarer; no Maka name recorded.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Sebastian-Manès Sprute, Umgekehrte Sammlungsgeschichte (TU Berlin / Université de Dschang, 2023), Linden-Museum inventory, p. 467, inv. 054515","url":"https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-17877"}],"source_citations":"Sebastian-Manès Sprute, Umgekehrte Sammlungsgeschichte (TU Berlin / Université de Dschang, 2023), Linden-Museum inventory, p. 467, inv. 054515","source_display":"Sebastian-Manès Sprute, Umgekehrte Sammlungsgeschichte (TU Berlin / Université de Dschang, 2023), Linden-Museum inventory, p. 467, inv. 054515","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer; materials and dimensions not recorded.","function_display":"A children's toy.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"maka","display_name":"Maka children's whirring toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PEPPER1958-001_pepper1958-001-ngwe-corded-blade.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PEPPER1958-001_pepper1958-001-ngwe-corded-blade_thumb.jpg","credit":"Drawing by Xénia Yellachich, after photographs by Herbert Pepper; Anthologie de la vie africaine (Congo-Gabon), 1958, booklet p. 16; CREM-CNRS","license":"CC BY-NC-ND (source booklet, version unspecified); crop/rotation is a derivative requiring authorization. Proposed for non-commercial research under the campaign house rule.","source_page":"https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_E_1959_002_004/related/178/download/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Ngwé corded blade from Kouyougandza; Pepper 1958, booklet p. 16","pool_id":"auto-PEPPER1958-001_pepper1958-001-ngwe-corded-blade","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"sprute2023-001-maka-eastern-cameroon"}