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Side-blown trumpet
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; top apparently representing a figure with wide-open mouth, body divided into narrow, vertical stripes with diamonds, zigzag lines, crescent shapes, curlicues, and circles; mouthhole round (irrelugar).
DimensionsHeight: 737 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 368 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 286 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 59 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 368 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 286 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 59 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from New Guinea Primitive Arts, Sydney, Australia.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not 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), p. 277.
Object number: 07283