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Side-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Towel
Date: 1950-1970 ca.
Place Made:East or Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionDark-stained wood, carved with a knife; top with male face with cowry-shell eyes at the front, and the contours of a face at the back; body with charingas, crescents, curlicues, and zigzag lines divided into six sections; round mouthhole.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 1200 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 700 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 35 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 140 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 700 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 35 mm
Bell diameter: ca. 140 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1996 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
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), pp. 20–22, 278.
Object number: 07174