EXH2026-022 - secondary catalog
Barundi (NE Congo)
Democratic Republic of the Congo - NE Congo (Babali initiation belt) - Central Africa
Restricted
Source term: rhombe
The Barundi of de Jonghe's Ituri list slip through the record: the name matches no group later scholars could confidently pin down. They belong to the same Babali-centred initiation world where the roaring slat spun, but of their own turn at it nothing survives beyond their listing among the forest neighbours — a name preserved, and little else.
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 bound up with the tribal-initiation complex that "is found with some variants among the neighbors of the Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia, and Lokele."
Söderberg 1956:184, quoting de Jonghe 1936:62
- Object
- Rhombe of the NE-Congo tribal-initiation complex (de Jonghe list).
- Function
- Listed by de Jonghe among the Babali-neighbour initiation-rhombe peoples.
- Map confidence
- low_medium - rough NE-Congo placement; ethnonym identification pending de Jonghe original
- Source location
- Soderberg pp. 184-185
- Initiation rite