War Horn: "Embuchi"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jan 1908
name: label: Donor Name
content: J. D. McGuire
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 90 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Panama Indians".
label: Notes
content: From Card: "Collected prior to 1845. Side-blown horn of elephant ivory, decorated with dot and circle and herringbone designs, Below mouthpiece a loop is cut in the ivory." From Card Reverse: "Made from an Elephant's tusk; its natural cavity forming the bore of the horn. The outside is worked down to conform to the cavity except at the small end of the tusk, The mouth hole is formed in the side in the inner curve of the tusk, it is of lenticular shape 1 3/4 by 1 1/16 inches, its rim projects 7/16 above the body of the horn, back of the mouth piece is carved in the ivory a loop handle 4 3/4 inches long with a 1/2 inch opening between it and body of the horn. A thumb hole from the outer end into the cavity opening or closing this changes the pitch about a semitone. The ivory about the sound hole is carved in a beaded molding of the 4 & 3 beads on one side of the mouth piece is a herringbone ornamentation, on the body of horn below handle and on inside curve only are small incised circles, concentric circles and half circle filled with a black pigment.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Congo River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 048292
label: USNM Number
content: E248666-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Horn
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 61 cm