This is not a separate work: it is UNESCO's own inscription record for the Ritual Dance of the Royal Drum, one entry in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the same continuously maintained official register this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that register rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Representative List record, or alongside another of its entries, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the register's own limit: an official designation record produced by the Intergovernmental Committee for the purpose of recognition and safeguarding, not a religiously neutral scholarly ethnography. Use it for this practice's inscription status, inscription year and the Committee's own stated description of it; a claim about its deeper history or meaning needs a source produced outside UNESCO.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: an official designation record from UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, an institutional primary source for a practice's inscription status and the Committee's own stated description of it, not a religiously neutral scholarly ethnography. NotesInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014, on Burundi's nomination. UNESCO's own text names it generically as the royal drum; karyenda is the drum's own name, attested in sourced material on the Burundian kingdom. Verified against ich.unesco.org 2026-08-06.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
PublisherUNESCO
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ritual-dance-of-the-royal-drum-00989
Source Typereference
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Derived From
This record's own Title names the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as the register it is entered under, and its Author names the Committee or UNESCO itself rather than an individual scholar; one entry inside that same continuously maintained official register, not a witness independent of it.
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 connected.
- Rituals, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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