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Four brass castanets, one missing (a). Each object had a knotted string coming out of the hole (missing here), forming a loop. To play music, two of the castanets were held by the strings of the thumb and middle finger and struck rhythmically. Database: Four castanets

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: cm
Width: cm
Depth: cm
Weight: 23,2 g
Weight: 32,5 g
Weight: 28,8 g
Weight: 25,9 g
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I B 452 a-e

Provenance and sources

where
Syria [Land/Region]
Damascus [Stadt]
who
Petermann, Julius Heinrich - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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