Trumpet
AF3583
From: Zaire | Northeastern Zaire
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF3583 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Zaire | Northeastern Zaire |
| Culture Area | Central Africa |
| Date Made | Late 19th century CE |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Description | The decorative carving about and behind the mouthpiece appears to be an elaboration, with regard to the former region; as to the latter, the truncated inverted cone has been modified into a terminal button on a short shaft which has been provided with a handle-like arrangement for a suspension cord. The incised decoration of the rest of the tusk--"Saturn" marks and modifications of these together with combinations of arcs of a circle--suggests a provenience from the Nile-Congo watershed or the Upper Nile. |
| Length | 44.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number | A-395 - Seder Number |
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