Bellows
2003-43-273
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-273 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Orok |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Fishskin |
| Technique | Carved | Joined |
| Description | Hand bellows; air chamber fabricated from two paddles carved of wood and joined by fishskin glued to the paddles outer edges; an intake orifice is pierced through the center of the top paddle in a scroll design; small handles are carved at one end of each paddle, one longer than the other; the opposite end of the belows feed into a long and thick valve of 4 pieces of carved wood joined with wooden pegs. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.273 - Other Number |
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