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This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton. It is a bell made from a folded iron alloy sheet, with a narrow slit opening, and an internal solid clapper rod made of iron alloy. The hooks of the clapper and bell are broken. There are small remains of vegetable fibers attached to the bell loop.
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1925–31 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Cameroon (North Region, Tcheboa) - 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: 125mm; Width: 30mm