Wooden bells for hunting dogs - hung around their necks to enable hunters to dis – Objects

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Object Number 37-32-50/2451

Display Title Wooden bells for hunting dogs - hung around their necks to enable hunters to dis

Descriptions

Object Description Wooden bells for hunting dogs - hung around their necks to enable hunters to distinguish them from game

Inventory Description Bell, carved wood, 4 clappers, twisted fiber cord, cracked

Classification

Percussion
Raw Material

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Makea?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern: Nlong River region, Upper

Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber

Dimensions Overall: 9.7 x 14.7 x 5.8 cm (3 13/16 x 5 13/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 37-32-50/2451

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
37-32-50/2452	Wooden bells for hunting dogs - hung around their necks to enable hunters to dis	Percussion Raw Material	Cameroon
37-32-50/2453	Wooden bells for hunting dogs - hung around their necks to enable hunters to dis	Percussion Raw Material	Cameroon
17-41-50/B1779.1	Dog's wooden hunting bells	Percussion	Congo
17-41-50/B1779.2	Dog's wooden hunting bells	Percussion	Congo
34-49-50/293	Wooden whistle for calling dogs when hunting or signalling to people - worn hung	Whistle	Cameroon
58-34-20/34063	Dzitha-near Merida. Stone slabs hung on wooden crossbeam which serve as bells.		Dzitha
2001.29.1973	Hunting: Man demonstrating the release of an arrow from a bow, wearing an extra skin that hunters wear around their waists to hold arrows so they can reach them quickly, with a termite mound under a tree in the background		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.1974	Hunting: Man demonstrating the release of an arrow from a bow, wearing an extra skin that hunters wear around their waists to hold arrows so they can reach them quickly, with a termite mound under a tree in the background		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
24-24-50/B4160	Bronze bells with iron clappers	Bell Raw Material	Gammai
80-21-60/22429	Bells	Percussion	Japan
2001.29.5892	Hunting, Ostrich: Two hunters with an ostrich lying on the ground; one is holding a knife		Gautscha
34-91-50/620	Iron neck ring with ring and bells pendant	Bracelet	Kaimosi

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