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1966.1.1057

Wooden side-blown horn.

1966.1.1057

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden side-blown horn.
Geographical reference
Liberia
Africa > Western Africa > Liberia
Person
Field collector W. Farrer
PRM source Ipswich Museum
PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1966
Date collected
By 1966
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Perforated, Process Repaired (local)
Dimensions
Diameter 56 mm, Length 576 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1966.1.1057 Other numbers: 1928.81.4 or 1928.81.13
Research and responses

The term side-blown is preferred to side-blast for this type of object [RTS 6/12/2004, after pers. comm. HLR].

For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1 [OD 1/6/2001].

Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Trumpet

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