{"id":"SUBSAH-011","label":"Gabon bromhout bullroarer","people_or_site":"Gabon","country_current":"Gabon","historic_region":"Gabon","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Bromhout","source_language":"English","object_description":"A long, dark, weathered wooden blade with a raised relief rib carved down its face.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"related_instrument","source_key":"MIMO_GABON_BROMHOUT_1976_038_06","source_type":"mimo_record","source_url":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_RMAH_95219_NL","page_or_plate":"MIMO OAI_RMAH_95219_NL / inventory 1976.038-06","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Gabon country anchor from MIMO/RMAH country-level object metadata; no original community, collector locality, or use context is stated.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wooden blade in Brussels' Musical Instruments Museum, just over half a metre long — 52 centimetres by 8.4, and 2.6 thick — from Gabon, dated no closer than \"before 1976.\" It travels under a Dutch name: \"bromhout,\" buzz-wood, the ordinary Dutch term for a bullroarer. No name from Gabon came with it, and the country is the whole of its provenance.","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":"Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 1976.038-06, 'Bromhout' (Gabon, before 1976)","url":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_RMAH_95219_NL","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013030737/https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_RMAH_95219_NL"}],"source_citations":"Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 1976.038-06, 'Bromhout' (Gabon, before 1976)","source_display":"Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 1976.038-06, 'Bromhout' (Gabon, before 1976)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A long, dark, weathered wooden blade with a raised relief rib carved down its face.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"related instrument","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gabon","display_name":"Gabon bromhout bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-011_mim_1976-038-06_gabon.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-011_mim_1976-038-06_gabon_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long dark wooden Gabonese blade photographed edge-on, with a raised ridge running lengthwise and small projections visible underneath.","credit":"Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels (RMAH), inv. 1976.038-06 — via MIMO","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_RMAH_95219_NL","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Gabonese bromhout itself: a long, dark, weathered wooden blade with a raised relief rib running down its face."},"slug":"subsah-011-gabon"}