Trumpet
AF826
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Aruwimi River
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF826 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mangbetu |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Aruwimi River |
| Culture Area | Central Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Description | For mouthpiece see AF843. The ridges on the long side of the rim are wanting; there is a slight rounded bulge out of which the rim rises. The inside of the curve of the tusk behind the mouthpiece is pared flat. Torday attributed this trumpet to the Bamputu, a division of the Mangbetu, see AF829. |
| Height | 12 cm |
| Length | 138 cm |
| Width | 24 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1405 - Other Number |
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