- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Xylophone with 24 bars.
- Long description
- Xylophone (24 bar); wooden resonator with carved decoration on the end panels, surface has been painted or lacquered in black and red pigment. The two strikers for this object are 1886.15.22 .2 and 1886.15.22 .3 [CAR 20/10/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 12/1886, uncertain Transferred: 12/1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material String, Material Linen Flax Bast Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Glass, Process Carpentered, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Tied, Process Woven, Process Lacquered Varnished
- Dimensions
- Width: max 445 mm, Length: max 1150 mm, Height: max 425 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.15.22.1
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Xylophone



