Lamellaphone with nine prongs some of which are decorated with blue glass or plastic beads. Two longs strings of blue glass beads and one green and yellow bead are attached to one end. [JP 15/10/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Lamellaphone with nine prongs some of which are decorated with blue glass or plastic beads. Two longs strings of blue glass beads and one green and yellow bead are attached to one end. [JP 15/10/2003]
Geographical reference: Congo, Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic of; Angola
Africa > Central Africa > Angola
Person: Field collector E.R. Jones; Field collector Mrs E.R. Jones; Field collector Evan Rhys Jones; Field collector Elizabeth Jones; PRM source H.B. Jones
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1915
Date collected: 1910 - 1915
Acquisition information: Donated: 2002
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Bead
Dimensions: Depth: max 45 mm, Width: max 140 mm, Length: max 270 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2002.91.13
Research and responses: Part of a collection of objects collected by Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Jones, who were missionaries in Congo and Angola from 1910 to 1915. [JP 25/9/2003] Full name of Dr E.R. Jones possibly Evan Rhys Jones, see records at Regent's Park College Angus Library and Archive which suggest he worked in Africa between 1910 and 1920 with his wife Elizabeth. They were Baptist missionaries and medical staff [AP 21/7/2016]

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