GESSAIN1991-001 - museum specimen
Coniagui child's rhombe
Youkounkoun, Koundara (Guinea-Senegal border) - West Africa
Play / practical
Source term: rhombe jouet d'enfant
Coniagui children played with small versions of grown-up things. Among the objects gathered from the Coniagui in 1946 were a child's bow made in imitation of an initiate's bow, a toy model of the transverse flute, a brass whistle copied from a European one, and a child's rhombe. Among the Tenda peoples, to whom the Coniagui belong, the rhombe has a graver life as well: it plays an important part in initiation.
- Object
- A child's toy rhombe (IFAN Dakar, Coniagui collection 1947-2, no. 348).
- Function
- A child's toy.
- Source
- Monique Gessain, "La civilisation matérielle des Coniagui (Guinée), d'après des collections de musées", Journal des africanistes 61(2) (1991): 111-143, pp. 120, 138. Object: Musée de l'IFAN, Dakar, Coniagui collection 1947-2 (M.-T. de Lestrange, 1946), no. 348
- Source location
- pp. 120, 138
- Source confidence
- medium to high
- Location note
- Youkounkoun, Koundara (OSM/Nominatim), the Coniagui centre; the collecting village is not named.
Regions: Africa · West Africa
- Toy / secular survival