EXH2026-020 - secondary catalog
Lokele, middle Congo River
Democratic Republic of the Congo - NE Congo (Babali initiation belt) - Central Africa
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Source term: rhombe
The Lokele are the middle-Congo fishing people whose talking drums John Carrington spent decades learning to read — a language of pitch that carried news for miles along the river. Their bullroarer is a fainter thing: they surface only as one name among the forest neighbours in whom Édouard de Jonghe traced the Babali initiation rite, with no separate account of a Lokele roarer or how it was sounded.
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».
the bullroarer is tied to the tribal-initiation complex that "is found, with some variants, among the neighbours of the Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia and Lokele."
Söderberg 1956:184–185, quoting de Jonghe 1936:62
- 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).
- Map confidence
- medium - Lokele riverine country below Kisangani
- Source location
- Soderberg pp. 184-185; de Jonghe 1936 pp. 62-63
- Initiation rite