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Stop bell

A bell-shaped wooden gong with a flat oval cross-section. The two large faces are each decorated with a carved face. A handle with a braided bast loop at the top

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Cultural attribution
Bakuba (Kuba)
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 19,2 cm
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 9,3 cm
Weight: 0,583 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Bast
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 19857

Provenance and sources

Production
where
Congo
who
Bakuba (Kuba)
Collecting
who
Frobenius, Leo - Collectors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Purchase from Leo Frobenius (Haslinger's heirs) 1908
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa

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