No. SUBSAH-021
Tupuri (Toupouri)
SW Chad · N Cameroon (Mayo-Kebbi) · Central Africa
Function not recorded
Among the Tupuri, fisher-farmers of the Mayo-Kebbi wetlands where Chad meets Cameroon, the bull-roarer is known by name alone. Theirs is a world ordered by the gurna, the generation-initiation, and crowded with the barkage, water-spirits who fill Tupuri rivers and speak every visitor's language; whether the whirled blade had any part in either is unknown.
Particulars
- Object
- A bull-roarer; its form is not recorded.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Arnaud & Lecomte, Musiques de toutes les Afriques (2006)