No. STEVENSON2005-001
Katcha furukεgε, a children's game
Sudan · Katcha hills south of Kadugli, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan · East Africa
Play / practical
furukεgε (plural arukεgε)
Source term: bull-roarer n. furukεgε (arukεgε)
furukεgε (pl. arukεgε): bull-roarer (Stevenson ms., Blench ed., pp. 9, 21)
For Katcha children the bullroarer, furukεgε, was a game, named in one breath with wrestling, a ball game played with dom-nuts, throwing feathers stuck into lumps of clay, and hunting for a red bead hidden in the sand. The Katcha live in the hills south of Kadugli in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. In the Masakin hills nearby the roarer was a child's instrument too, made and played by girls, and silenced while the grain was growing.
Particulars
- Object
- A bullroarer, called furukεgε; its form is not recorded.
- Function
- A children's game.
Source
Roland Stevenson, Dictionary of Katcha (manuscript, ed. Roger Blench, 2005), pp. 9, 21