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Side-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Towel
Date: 1950-1970 ca.
Place Made:Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionDark-stained wood, carved with a knife, revealing light-colored wood at the carved areas, highlights in white paint; top with human head with cowry-shell eyes, body with crescents, churingas, and curvilinear carvings divided by straight horizontal lines into five sections; mouthhole round.
DimensionsHeight: 865 mm
Effective tube length: 450 mm
Mouthhole diameter ca. 29 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 120 mm
Effective tube length: 450 mm
Mouthhole diameter ca. 29 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 120 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997, Sydney, Australia.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
On view
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 21–22, 278.
Object number: 07288