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gamelan

Register 1939: Composite musical instrument: model gamelan consisting of a wooden stand, carved and painted bright red and golden, the cross bar in the form of two intertwined serpents with a bird standing in the centre (one head and bird missing; the remaining head swivels); supporting two gongs held apart by two painted wooden struts; one upright model broken.

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