Double Bell Of Wood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Carl Steckelmann
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 cards: "Made of carved wood in the form of two oval bells united by their handles, each bell has three wooden tongues suspended by a cord fastened to the sides of the bell near the handles. Decorated with raised bands and diagonal incised lines made black by charring." "See Mahillon, vol. III, p.248 No.1712 "Ngonge"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Congo, Republic of, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Western Congo Tribes
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026257
label: USNM Number
content: E95214-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bell
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 16.192 cm
label: Width
content: 5.397 cm
label: Thickness
content: 3.492 cm