{"id":"SUBSAH-026","label":"Senufo (Senoufo)","people_or_site":"Senufo (Senoufo)","country_current":"Cote d'Ivoire","historic_region":"Korhogo-Boundiali, northern Cote d'Ivoire / SE Mali","macroregion":"Africa / West Africa","local_name":"rhombe(s)","source_term":"rhombe(s)","source_language":"French","object_description":"Rhombes played with Poro horns in a Senoufo Djimini funeral for a Poro member at Kongobanadougou.","function_summary":"Poro men come out of the sacred grove with Poro instruments for a member burial; horn and rhombe players step over the wrapped body while women mourn and place yam pieces in the dead man's hand.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21/","page_or_plate":"CREM item CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21, text","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When a Poro man is buried, the men of the initiation society file out of the sacred grove carrying its hidden instruments. Hugo Zemp taped the scene at Kongobanadougou in 1965: a friction drum growls the voice of the Kluklo mask, and players swinging rhombes and blowing antelope-horn megaphones stride one after another over the cloth-wrapped body, while the women press close, weeping, folding pieces of yam into the dead man's hand.","pull_quote":"Joueurs de trompes et de rhombes marchent en enjambant le corps.","pull_quote_translation":"Horn and rhombe players walk while stepping over the body.","pull_quote_cite":"Hugo Zemp, Musique du Poro, CREM-CNRS item CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21","term_gloss":"rhombe: French term for bullroarer.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","death_rebirth"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Hugo Zemp, Musique du Poro (Senoufo djimini, Kongobanadougou, May 1965), CREM-CNRS / Musee de l'Homme item CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21","url":"https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250906173429/https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21/"}],"source_citations":"Hugo Zemp, Musique du Poro (Senoufo djimini, Kongobanadougou, May 1965), CREM-CNRS / Musee de l'Homme item CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21","source_display":"Hugo Zemp, Musique du Poro (Senoufo djimini, Kongobanadougou, May 1965), CREM-CNRS / Musee de l'Homme item CNRSMH_I_2001_003_005_21","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rhombes played with Poro horns in a Senoufo Djimini funeral for a Poro member at Kongobanadougou.","function_display":"Poro men come out of the sacred grove with Poro instruments for a member burial; horn and rhombe players step over the wrapped body while women mourn and place yam pieces in the dead man's hand.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"senufo","display_name":"Senufo (Senoufo)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39573.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39573_thumb.jpg","alt":"An Egba bullroarer from Abeokuta, a tapering wooden slat with cord wound around the broad end.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1917.14.43)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39573","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A tapering wooden slat bullroarer with cord wound at the broad end."},"slug":"subsah-026-senufo-senoufo"}