Trumpet

AF840

From: Northern Zaire | Northern Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF840
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Northern Zaire | Northern Congo
Culture Area Central Africa
Section African
Materials Ivory
Description

The attribution is due Torday: but for shape mouthpiece and its surrounds in less well-defined form cf. AF836. The tip of the tusk, pierced longitudinally, like most of these these trumpets, is broken off.

Height 11 cm
Length 73 cm
Width 11.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 486 - Other Number | A-393 - Seder Number

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