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Handbell
Divination bell. Double handbell, carved from a single piece of wood. A rectangular hole is carved in the handle between the two bells. There are slits in the sides of bells, with twisted vegetable fibres attached. Each bell has three wooden stick clappers. The dark colouration around edges of bells is possibly where it has been singed.
- Date:
before 1924 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Tanzania - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
- Culture:Kumakembi?, Konabembe?
- Period:
- Materials:vegetable fibre, wood
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- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 300 x 85 x 60 mm