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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 clapper hook is attached through a twisted loop end of 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: 25mm