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1938.31.27

Ivory side-blown trumpet.

1938.31.27

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ivory side-blown trumpet.
Long description
Old side-blast trumpet with figures etc. carved at the pointed end. Attribution very doubtful. Possibly a fake. Embouchure on concave side. Carving very rough. Judging from colouring embouchure has been surrounded with something. Tube continues beyond embouchure. Embouchure roughly cut in side and low down. Tusk still v. thick at bell. (JM).
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Benin City
Cultural groups
Edo
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1938
Date collected
By 1938
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1938
Materials and processes
Material Elephant Tooth Ivory Animal, Process Perforated, Process Carved
Dimensions
Width: max 35 mm bell, Length: max 25 mm mouth hole, Depth: max 27 mm bell, Width: max 17 mm mouth hole, Length: max 930 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.31.27
Research and responses

Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].

Search terms: Music, Figure, Reproduction, Musical Instrument, Trumpet