Bagpipes with bag of kid skin.

Collection type: Object
Description: Bagpipes with bag of kid skin.
Geographical reference: Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece; Greek Islands
Cultural groups: Greek
Person: Field collector James Theodore Bent; PRM source James Theodore Bent
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: By 1903
Acquisition information: Found unentered: 11/1888, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Skin, Material Animal Skin, Process Perforated, Process Tied
Dimensions: Length 155 mm chanter, Diameter 255 mm yoke
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.130.23
Associated publications: Balfour, Pibcorn, JAI 1890, Figs. 5, 6. Published in Bagpipes by Anthony Baines (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 9, 1960) on pages 44-45, black and white photograph on Plate III, No. 8. [MJD 31/08/2011] Illustrated in black and white on page 126 of World Enough and Time: Greece and the Levantine Littoral, Volume 1 of The Travel Chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent: Mabel Bent's Diaries of 1883-1898, from the Archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London, Published for the First Time, with Additional Material by Gerald Brisch (3rdguides), Oxford: Archaeopress (2006). Caption (same page) reads: 'Theodore Vent's samboúna, acquired in the Dodecanese in 1885' (see also 'Illustration Credits' on page 365). [JC 3 3 2009, 27 8 2010]