Trumpet
| Object Number: | 29-50-682 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | New Guinea Mindimbit |
| Section: | Oceanian |
| Materials: | Wood Peel Pigment |
| Iconography: | Parrot? Cockatoo? |
| Length: | 151.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 13 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number: | 19 - Other Number |
Description
Wooden. Cf. 29-50-679 for form, 29-50-681 for carving. More realistic, painted, parrot's (cockatoo's?) head with ring of raised bisected ovals simulating cowries behind it. This motif is repeated near lower rim and occurs also in the flat painted decoration.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Four Thousand Years of Music (18 May 1950 - Apr 1958) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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