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This instrument was collected in the field by Christopher and Diana Powell-Cotton, through a Mutoro boy. It is a clapper bell made from a dried nut shell with a bone clapper attached with cotton twine, which is worn by dogs as a neck collar for hunting.
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1940–51 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Fort Portal (Timezone: Africa/Kampala) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Height: 85mm; Width: 75mm; Depth: 40mm; Bone length: 120mm