{"id":"SUBSAH-005","label":"Leele Nar'a kwei Kasai bullroarer recording","people_or_site":"Leele","country_current":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","historic_region":"Kasai / Leele country","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"Nar'a kwei","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bullroarer, recorded under the Leele name Nar'a kwei.","function_summary":"Use not recorded.","attestation_type":"related_instrument","source_key":"AFRICAMUSEUM_NARA_KWEI_LEELE","source_type":"online_instrument_page","source_url":"https://music.africamuseum.be/instruments/english/congo%20drc/nara_kwei.html","page_or_plate":"AfricaMuseum, Nar'a kwei (Leele) record","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Leele Kasai regional anchor near Ilebo not Tervuren","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Leele of the Kasai call the bullroarer Nar'a kwei: an elongated, flat, oval disk pierced at one end, where a long cord is knotted and swung rapidly above the head to produce a low buzzing hum. What survives of theirs is that hum — a recording in the Tervuren sound archive.","pull_quote":"Bullroarers are found worldwide, but are not common in Africa.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum), online instruments archive, \"Nar'a kwei (Leele)\" page","term_gloss":"Nar'a kwei: Leele (Lele) vernacular name recorded for the bullroarer in the AfricaMuseum sound archive.","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":"Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum), Tervuren, 'Nar'a kwei' (Leele) record","url":"https://music.africamuseum.be/instruments/english/congo%20drc/nara_kwei.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013030610/https://music.africamuseum.be/instruments/english/congo%20drc/nara_kwei.html"}],"source_citations":"Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum), Tervuren, 'Nar'a kwei' (Leele) record","source_display":"Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum), Tervuren, 'Nar'a kwei' (Leele) record","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer, recorded under the Leele name Nar'a kwei.","function_display":"Use not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"related instrument","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"leele","display_name":"Leele Nar'a kwei Kasai bullroarer recording","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/kmma_congo_snorhout_mr1973_14_1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/kmma_congo_snorhout_mr1973_14_1_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, narrow Congo Basin bullroarer blade with dark triangular and crossbar designs, attached to a pale cord.","credit":"© KMMA / Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren","license":"© KMMA","source_page":"https://music.africamuseum.be/instruments/english/congo%20drc/nara_kwei.html","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Congo Basin bullroarer with dark geometric decoration."},"slug":"subsah-005-leele"}