No. SOENGAS2010-001
Bakoya namikote of Imbong
Gabon · Ogooué-Ivindo, Département de la Zadié (Mekambo area) · Africa
Function not recorded
namikote / namakote
Source term: rhombe
namikote / namakote: rhombe, bullroarer (Koya).
The Bakoya of Imbong, in the forests of north-eastern Gabon, call the bullroarer namikote or namakote. It sits in their music beside a small tam-tam and a great drum, a harp-zither and a mouth bow, a rattle made from two seeds of the ukaka tree, and a square of beams that musicians beat with sticks while men and women dance. The Bakoya were famed net-hunters and spear-hunters of the red river hog, and on the eve of a great hunt everyone gathered for a ceremony led by the masters of the hunt.
Particulars
- Object
- A bullroarer called namikote or namakote in Koya; construction not described.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Beatriz Soengas López, La subsistance des Pygmées Bakoya à l’épreuve de l’agriculture, doctoral thesis, MNHN (2010), annexe 3 p. 16; pp. 116, 181