- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Clapper made from a piece of split bamboo.
- 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
- 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 12/1886, uncertain Transferred: 12/1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Process Split
- Dimensions
- Length: max 655 mm, Diameter: max 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.15.34
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Clappers
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