{"id":"SUBSAH-039","label":"Hidden roarer of the Komo and Nama","people_or_site":"Malinke / Bambara (Bamana) secret societies — Komo (Komang/Koma), Nama and allied cults","country_current":"Mali / Guinea","historic_region":"Upper Niger between the upper Senegal and the Bani (\"Central Mandingo\" country)","macroregion":"Africa / West Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Sacred bullroarer concealed within the Komo/Nama men’s-society complex.","function_summary":"Carefully hidden sacred instrument associated with men’s secret societies and the circumcision-festival complex.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"frobenius1908_ze40","source_type":"journal_article","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfre40berluoft","page_or_plate":"ZE 40 (1908), p. 801","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Mande heartland regional anchor, upper Niger; Frobenius names a region, not a village","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Inside the Komo, Nama, and allied societies of the upper Niger, the bullroarer belonged to the guarded machinery of circumcision and masked power. Frobenius’s report is terse but absolute: it was “a sacred, carefully hidden implement.”","pull_quote":"Die Beschneidungsfeste selbst spielen die grösste Rolle, sowohl im Wechsel des Jahres, als im Leben der Einzelnen.","pull_quote_translation":"The circumcision feasts themselves play the greatest part, both in the turning of the year and in the life of each person.","pull_quote_cite":"Frobenius, \"Reisebericht,\" Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 40 (1908), p. 801","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"L. Frobenius, \"Reisebericht,\" Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 40 (1908): 799-806, at p. 801","url":"https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfre40berluoft"}],"source_citations":"L. Frobenius, \"Reisebericht,\" Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 40 (1908): 799-806, at p. 801","source_display":"L. Frobenius, \"Reisebericht,\" Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 40 (1908): 799-806, at p. 801","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Sacred bullroarer concealed within the Komo/Nama men’s-society complex.","function_display":"Carefully hidden sacred instrument associated with men’s secret societies and the circumcision-festival complex.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"malinke","display_name":"Hidden roarer of the Komo and Nama","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/rmca_MO1965-17-11.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/rmca_MO1965-17-11_thumb.jpg","alt":"Bozo bullroarer from Mali, RMCA MO.1965.17.11: a tapered wooden blade patterned with dark crossing diagonal lines that form triangles, with cord attached near one pointed end.","credit":"Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (MO.1965.17.11), via MIMO","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 BE","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_AFRICAMUSEUM_BE_MO_1965_17_11","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Bozo bullroarer, Mali","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--rmca_MO1965-17-11"},"slug":"subsah-039-malinke-bambara-bamana-secret-societies-komo-komang-koma-nama-and-allied-cults"}