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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. This bell was recovered from a bombed pagoda in Mandalay by Capt. A. J. Parfitt, Royal Engineers, in February 1945.
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1940–5 - Maker:
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National Army Museum - Inventory number:
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Myanmar (Burma) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
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- Inscriptions:Small inscription in Burmese script.
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.242.122 (Individual) clapper bells
- Repository:National Army Museum
- Measurements:Height: 170mm; Bell height: 65mm; Bell diameter: 42mm