Trumpet
AF826
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Aruwimi River
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | AF826 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Mangbetu |
Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Aruwimi River |
Culture Area | Central Africa |
Section | African |
Materials | Ivory |
Description | For mouthpiece see AF843. The ridges on the long side of the rim are wanting; there is a slight rounded bulge out of which the rim rises. The inside of the curve of the tusk behind the mouthpiece is pared flat. Torday attributed this trumpet to the Bamputu, a division of the Mangbetu, see AF829. |
Height | 12 cm |
Length | 138 cm |
Width | 24 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
Other Number | 1405 - Other Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.