imbetu

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Wind instrument (fragments)

Main historical catalogue: " "mbutu" Remains of an old wooden wind instrument on which the Wakimbu used to blow when they went to the nearby sacred mountain of Ngwala to make sacrifices. The mouthpiece insert is missing. All other wind instruments are said to have been stolen by the Riwere people on their war campaigns. No one is now able to make these instruments with the beautiful carvings, as the Fundi, who knew how to carve them, have supposedly been dead for 50 years. 102 cm lg. Kaömbwe's village in Nkila (Ukimbu)"

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Cultural attribution
Wakimbu
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 2) L: 89,5 cm
Objektmaß: 3) L: 94 cm
Objektmaß: 1) L: 84 cm
Objektmaß: 4) L:101,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 7905

Provenance and sources

where
Tanzania [Land/Region]
who
Wakimbu

who
Glauning, Hans - Collectors

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