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Side-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Towel
Date: 1950-1970 ca.
Place Made:Kanengra, Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionDark-stained wood, painted white and orange around the mouthhole, carved with a knife; top with human head with cowry-shell eyes, body with crescent shapes, circles, churingas; and zigzag lines, divided into five segments; square mouthhole.
DimensionsHeight: 737 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 406 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 21 mm
Bell Diameter: 77 mm
Effective tube length: ca. 406 mm
Mouthhole diameter: ca. 21 mm
Bell Diameter: 77 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: 07287