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Bells
Object Number 80-21-60/22429
Display Title Bells
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bells, carved wooden temple bells, no clappers, connected with fiber cord
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Date ca.1830
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan
Materials Wood, Pigment, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 16.5 x 14.5 x 10.5 cm (6 1/2 x 5 11/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 22.429; 72; 73
Provenance
Collector Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse (1879 - 1880)

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