The Bullroarer Atlas

No. MEN2007-001Africa

Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli

Ngangela country, south-eastern Angola (then Portuguese Angola) · Southern Africa

Function not recorded

Drawing of the Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli from Angola: a broad rectangular instrument with an inset narrow strip and loose cord above a narrower end-pierced blade with cord.
Plate I. Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli, Angola, 1933. Image source

kasolo; kahulihuli

Source term: rhombe

kasolo; kahulihuli — Ngangela names for the two instruments; their meanings are unrecorded. rhombe — French for bullroarer.

The Ngangela pair turns contrast into a kind of duet: kasolo is a plain rectangle with its cord wound tight around one end, while kahulihuli narrows into a long taper pierced at the tip.

Particulars

Object
Two contrasting blades: kasolo is rectangular, with its cord wound around one end; kahulihuli is long and tapered, pierced at its narrow end for a loose cord.
Function
Not recorded.

Source

Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, inv. III.C.5524 (kasolo) and III.C.5525 (kahulihuli), Ngangela, Angola, 1933; Retour d'Angola (MEN, Texpo 12bis), p. 20

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.