MEN2007-001 - museum specimen
Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli
Ngangela country, south-eastern Angola (then Portuguese Angola) - Southern Africa
Function not recorded
kasolo; kahulihuli French
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.
- 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.
- Map confidence
- low - Broad Ngangela culture-area anchor in south-eastern Angola (Cuando Cubango / Moxico / south-eastern Bié). The museum records only "Ngangela, Angola, 1933" with no village; Vila da Ponte and the Kubango are deliberately not inferred from other objects in the same mission.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 20 (PDF p. 22); inv. III.C.5524, III.C.5525