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Windbell
Small bronze bell with internal bronze clapper. Attached and suspended from the clapper is a thin leaf-shaped sheet of gilded iron. These small Burmese bells are suspended in pagoda temples and they chime when this pendant catches the wind.
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1800–39 - Maker:
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Saffron Walden Museum - Inventory number:
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East Asia (probably Myanmar) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
- Repository:Saffron Walden Museum
- Measurements:Height (with clapper): 180mm; Diameter: 48mm