{"id":"SUBSAH-006","label":"Luba Tambo palm-leaf bullroarer","people_or_site":"Luba","country_current":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","historic_region":"Luba country / Tambo register note","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"Tambo","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bullroarer made of palm leaf stem","function_summary":"Use not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"BM_AF1909_0513_212_LUBA","source_type":"british_museum_object_search","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1909-0513-212","page_or_plate":"British Museum object-page search result; British Museum Luba term page","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Luba regional anchor not British Museum","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bullroarer cut from a palm-leaf stem, collected among the Luba during Emil Torday's 1907-1909 expedition to the Kasai Basin for the British Museum and registered there in 1909. Its Luba name was tambo. What the palm-stem blade was swung for is lost.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"British Museum Af1909,0513.212 (Luba, Democratic Republic of Congo)","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1909-0513-212"}],"source_citations":"British Museum Af1909,0513.212 (Luba, Democratic Republic of Congo)","source_display":"British Museum Af1909,0513.212 (Luba, Democratic Republic of Congo)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer made of palm leaf stem","function_display":"Use not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"luba","display_name":"Luba Tambo palm-leaf bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Af1909-0513-212.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Af1909-0513-212_thumb.jpg","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Af1909-0513-212)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1909-0513-212","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Luba palm-leaf bullroarer with plant-fibre cord wound around the stem."},"slug":"subsah-006-luba"}