{"id":"SUBSAH-017","label":"Mofu","people_or_site":"Mofu","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"Mandara Mountains / Gudur, Far North Cameroon","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"Reported Mofu/Gudur rhombe from an unrecovered Guernier secondary entry.","function_summary":"Unrecovered secondary occurrence/use lead for a Mofu/Gudur rhombe; local files do not preserve the Guernier page naming the instrument or describing its use/gender context.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38418488W","page_or_plate":"Cameroun-Togo vol. (Mofu, Gudur)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Mofu of the Gudur massifs — the \"men of the rocks,\" whose chiefs still guard the hidden cult of the mountain spirit high in Cameroon's Mandara range — a flat blade was whirled on a cord: the rhombe. What its voice was 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":"Guernier (ed.), Encyclopedie coloniale: Cameroun, Togo (1951)","url":"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38418488W"}],"source_citations":"Guernier (ed.), Encyclopedie coloniale: Cameroun, Togo (1951)","source_display":"Guernier (ed.), Encyclopedie coloniale: Cameroun, Togo (1951)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mofu","display_name":"Mofu","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39561.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39561_thumb.jpg","alt":"A slender dark wooden blade tapering toward its ends, with white cord wound around the middle and trailing in loose loops.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1985.18.21)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39561","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Slender dark wooden blade pointed at both ends, with white cord."},"slug":"subsah-017-mofu"}