Dervish Horn (Muzmar El Daraweesh)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Consul General Louis B. Grant
label: Donor Name
content: Consul General Louis B. Grant
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in Bull 136, USNM,pl. 19-e, p. 132. A flattened horn probably made from an African goat's horn (Capra nubiana). It is curved, lenticular, in its cross section. The mouth is biforcated and the edges notched. It has three legs formed on outer curve edge of the tube in which are inserted four brass rings. The bore is slightly enlarged at its upper end, thus forming the cupped mouth."
label: Notes
content: Per the Encyclopaedia Iranica online entry "DARVĪŠ", in the section on the Islamic Period: "In the Islamic period the term darvīš, or dervish, has been variously applied to claimants to the virtue of spiritual poverty, that is, nonattachment, often in conjunction with deliberately chosen or passively accepted material poverty; adherents or practitioners of Sufism, especially its undisciplined or antinomian forms; and mendicants with pretensions to sanctity. ... A further part of the darvīš's [dervish's] equipment was the nafīr, or būq, a trumpet made from the horn of a ram or deer." - Source: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/darvis#ii , retrieved 21 July 2023.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025998
label: USNM Number
content: E95198-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Horn