Trumpet
AF844
From: Zaire | Northern Zaire | Lake Leopold
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | AF844 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Zaire | Northern Zaire | Lake Leopold |
Culture Area | Central Africa |
Section | African |
Materials | Ivory |
Description | Long, roughly oval mouthpiece-hole, originally surrounded by a ridge, now much chipped, of the same form, the middle of each long side of which passes into a rounded buldge on the side of the tusk neat the opening. For the "L. Leopold" of the old label. Torday sustituted "Lesa" ( place name? or Balese of the northeast?). |
Height | 8 cm |
Length | 77 cm |
Width | 15 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
Other Number | 23 - Other Number | A-377 - Seder Number |
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