Wagenia (Genya)

Source term: rhombe

At Kisangani the Wagenia lash tall wooden tripods into the Boyoma (Stanley) Falls, wedging cone-shaped basket traps into the whitewater to haul fish from the roaring rapids — a craft handed down the male line for generations. These same falls-fishers stand in the belt of forest initiation that Édouard de Jonghe traced outward from the Babali: a complex found 'with some variations' among the Bakumu, Babira, Wagenia, Lokele and their neighbours, and the bullroarer is bound to it wherever it runs.

de Jonghe a souligné que le rhombe est lié au complexe d'initiation tribale qui «se rencontre avec quelques variantes chez les voisins des Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia et Lokele».

de Jonghe stressed that the bullroarer is tied to the tribal-initiation complex which "is found, with some variations, among the neighbors of the Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia, and Lokele."

Söderberg 1956:184, quoting de Jonghe 1936:62

Particulars

Object

Rhombe of the NE-Congo tribal-initiation complex.

Function

Rhombe tied to the tribal initiation complex of the Babali and their neighbours (de Jonghe).