African Wooden Horn (Nanga)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Carl Steckelmann
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The mouth piece, tube and bell is carved from a single piece of soft light colored wood. The base made with a burning iron. The outside charred and ornamented with incised lines. Engel, p. 149, gives the name to a stringed instrument of the Niam Niams."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jul 2023
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026257
label: USNM Number
content: E95227-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Horn
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 70.48 cm
label: Minimum Diameter - Tube
content: 3 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Tube
content: 5.71 cm
label: Diameter - Bell
content: 10.478 cm