SUBSAH-017 - secondary catalog
Mofu
Mandara Mountains - Gudur, Far North Cameroon - Central Africa
Function not recorded
A single line in a 1951 colonial encyclopedia is the whole record of a rhombe among the Mofu of the Gudur massifs: a flat whirled blade was noted, and then the writer moved on without ever saying what it was for. Its voice is lost to us. Whether it called the rain, warned off the uninitiated, or spoke for the dead, we cannot say among these "men of the rocks," whose chiefs still guard the hidden cult of the mountain spirit high in Cameroon's Mandara range.
- Object
- Reported Mofu/Gudur rhombe from an unrecovered Guernier secondary entry.
- Function
- Unrecovered secondary occurrence/use lead for a Mofu/Gudur rhombe; local files do not preserve the Guernier page naming the instrument or describing its use/gender context.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)
- Source location
- Cameroun-Togo vol. (Mofu, Gudur)