Trumpet
AF836
From: Tanganyika | Lake Victoria
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF836 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Washashi | Washnussi |
| Provenience | Tanganyika | Lake Victoria |
| Culture Area | East Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Description | The mouthpiece-hole, nearly quadrangular in shape, is pierced through a steeply projecting bulge of simmilar outline left in the ivory on the inside of the curve of the tusk near the small end. Torday rejected the attribution "Waschussi" on the old label in favour of "Upper Congo". |
| Height | 7 cm |
| Length | 46 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 25 - Other Number | A-373 - Seder Number |
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