- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Horn for calling children
- Cultural groups
- Ovimbundu
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Antelope Horn Animal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 92 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.282
Search terms: Music, Children and Childcare, Musical Instrument, Signal, Flute
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