- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lamellaphone with 17 iron bars. [RR 20/1/2020]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Ngangela
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Powell-Cotton Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1945
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Wax, Process Carpentered, Process Decorated, Process Perforated, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 220 mm, Width: max 66 mm, Height: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.10.8 Other numbers: Powell-Cotton number (37.451 or 37.2397)
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Lamellophone
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