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Claw cage bell (elephant bell)
Used on elephants to track their movements, this is a solid-cast, claw-shaped (hemispherical dome from which descend roughly identical and equally spaced tines with an inward curvature - some currently broken) brass bell with a pear-shaped clapper.
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1850–1919 - Maker:
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Saffron Walden Museum - Inventory number:
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India - 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: 135mm; Diameter: 123mm