- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brass voice disguiser in the form of a woman carrying a child on her back.
- Cultural groups
- Tiv
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1932 Bequeathed: 1939, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Lost Wax Cast, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 45 mm, Height: max 210 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.35.12 Other numbers: Balfour 432 Other PRM accession number: 1938.34.432
Search terms: Music, Figure, Religion, Musical Instrument, Voice Disguiser, Religious Object
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