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Object Number
39-39-50/4187
Display Title
Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
magufwa ninka
Object Description
Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrument in ceremonial dances; probably the former, cf. mud on surface ("magufwa ninka")
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Banyaruanda
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Uganda
Additional Geographic Terms
Uganda, Southwest: Kigesi District: Nyakabande; Lake Mutanda, near
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