Wooden-Bell
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IDENTIFICATION SEEMS CORRECT. REF.: ANNALES DU MUSEE DU CONGO, NOTES ANALYTIQUES SUR LES COLLECTIONS ETHNOGRAPHIQUES DU MUSEE DU CONGO, SER. III, TOME 1, FASC. 1, 1902: PLATE I, FIG. 9. - G.D.G. AN ALMOST EXACT ILLUSTRATION IS PUBLISHED IN TORDAY AND JOYCE (ANNALES DU MUSEE DU CONGO BELGE, NOTES ETHNOGRAPHIQUES SUR LES BASSINS DU KASAI ET DU KWANGO ORIENTAL..., BRUSSELS 1922), FIG. 45. THIS IS ASCRIBED TO THE BATETELA, AND ACCORDING TO THE TEXT IS WORN BY MEN ON THE BUTTOCKS (I.E., TIED HIGH ON THE THIGH, WITH THE BELL BEHIND), AND APPARENTLY USED IN DANCING. DANCING BELLS OF THIS SORT PROBABLY OCCUR IN SEVERAL TRIBES; VERNER'S IDENTIFICATION AS LUBA IS ACCEPTED UNTIL DISPROVEN.-C.D.G."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luba
label: Culture
content: (Ba Luba)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204380-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bell
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 8 cm