Horn Trumpet With Wax Bell
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Feb 1962
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ben Van Zyl
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A straight tubular externally corrugated animal horn with a bulbous wax bell [resonating chamber] with narrow mouth and everted lip attached. The horn is the horn of a gemsbok (Oryx gazella). The wax bell is made from the hive of a ground-dwelling stingless bee (Trigona beccarii albofasciata Friese), an contains about 10% dirt by volume. The trumpet is called Onjembo-erose "horn of wax." It is played by Himba cattle herdsmen in calling their cattle, and in alternation with sung cattle praise chants. From this specimen a sample plug of the wax was removed for analysis of the foreign material, and the hole filled with pure beeswax."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Gibson, Gordon D. "258. The Himba Trumpet." Man 62 (1962): 161–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/2797011.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kaokoveld, Namibia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Himba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 240630
label: USNM Number
content: E399689-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trumpet