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Trumpet made of horn and metal - used during balseria ceremony
Image Not Available for Trumpet made of horn and metal - used during balseria ceremony
Object Number 48-61-20/18124
Display Title Trumpet made of horn and metal - used during balseria ceremony
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Guaymí
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Panama
Additional Geographic Terms Cricamola River

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Balsa wood log - used in game during balseria ceremony
48-61-20/18123 Balsa wood log - used in game during balseria ceremony
Stick
Panama
Shell trumpet - used in male puberty ceremonies
36-105-70/550 Shell trumpet - used in male puberty ceremonies
Unclassified
Boram
Trumpet (kakar) used in puberty ceremony
36-105-70/430 Trumpet (kakar) used in puberty ceremony
Tools
New Guinea
Trumpet or horn made of a large bone - part of lama's equipment +
62-33-60/11813 Trumpet or horn made of a large bone - part of lama's equipment +
Woodwind
Bengal
Guitar, Violin, Cow's horn trumpets, rattle and dried peyote
40-88-20/76388.1.34 Guitar, Violin, Cow's horn trumpets, rattle and dried peyote
Jalisco
Trumpet of antelope horn, dio
39-39-50/3926 Trumpet of antelope horn, dio
Woodwind
Raw Material
Uganda
Trumpet of antelope horn with fibre attachment, dio
39-39-50/3927 Trumpet of antelope horn with fibre attachment, dio
Woodwind
Raw Material
Uganda
Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20875 Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27256 Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27256.1 Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
[No folder title]: Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.30994 [No folder title]: Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
War trumpet, "kudu horn pipe"
13-21-50/84655 War trumpet, "kudu horn pipe"
Unclassified
Sudan