- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cast brass voice disguiser, in form of human figure, with lizard skin membrane.
- Long description
- Cast brass voice disguiser, in form of human figure, with lizard skin membrane. The conical tube as body with arms and short legs; covered with straight and undulating plaited band patterns and a cowry-shaped ornament; with two rows of loops down lower part of front; the head covered with globular and cowry-shaped knobs. Buzzing membrane of lizard skin covering lower aperture. [MJD 20/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Tiv
- Person
- Field collector Wukari Native Administration
- PRM source Wukari Native Administration
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932 Bequeathed: 1939, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Lizard Skin Reptile, Process Lost Wax Cast, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Width 53 mm, Length 229 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.18.14 Other numbers: Balfour 436 Other PRM accession number: 1938.34.436
- Associated publications
- Listed as number 110 on page 14 of Art from the Guinea Coast (Pitt Rivers Museum, Illustrated Catalogue No. 1), Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum (1965): 'NIGERIA Northern Region ... 110. Cast brass ritual voice-disguiser (imborivungu) in the form of a human figure. Tiv tribe (13.5 [sic] cm.)'. Also illustrated in black and white in unnumbered plate XXXI. (For details of exhibition, see under 'Display History'.) [JC 12 9 2013] This object features in the Museum's audio tour produced in 2010 [HH 05/07/2010]
Search terms: Music, Figure, Musical Instrument, Voice Disguiser