Dog-Bell Of Carved Wood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1887
name: label: Donor Name
content: Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme)
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 58 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Notes
content: From Card: "Carved wood in the shape of a bivalve, three holes are made in the bottom and connected by a narrow slot. Through this opening the inside was excavated. It has three wooden tongues, their inner ends hung on a cord. The African dog does not bark; for this reason bells are attached to hunting dogs to indicate where they are. " "Placed: with the rattles/above, 1887"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niadi Londimas
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018694
label: USNM Number
content: E127991-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bell
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 8.9 cm
label: Thickness
content: 6.3 cm