Trumpet
AF819
From: Northern Zaire | Zaire | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF819 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Northern Zaire | Zaire | Belgian Congo |
| Culture Area | Central Africa |
| Date Made | 19th–Early 20th century CE |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ivory | Skin |
| Description | Ivory. The small end of the instrument has the form of that of AF824, AF833. The mouthpiece region is a simplified form of that of those trumpets: the actual mouthpiece rim being repeated on the other side with an unperforated prominence of similar shape, and these two prominences being separated by a simple longitudinal ridge. Of these features the characterisitic elements of the design of AF824 appear to be an elaboration. Cf. also the mouthpiece of AF229; and see also AF825, which has a similiar mouthpiece rim, about which no decorative repetition or other ornament has been developed. |
| Length | 22 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1161 - Field No SF |
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