Bells

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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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