Trumpet
AF829
From: Belgian Congo | Upper Aruwimi River
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF829 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mangbettu |
| Provenience | Belgian Congo | Upper Aruwimi River |
| Culture Area | Central Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Description | Similar type of mouthpeice, AF844. The hole is elliptical, the low ridge is lozenge-shaped, the angles of the long sides of the lozenge being carried transversely down the sides of the tusk forming two short, well-marked ridges. For the original attribution (as above) Torday put Bamputu ( Mambutu, mobutu), as a division of the Mengettu people. The lower end and the part of the tusk forward of the mouthpiece are covered with hide. |
| Length | 152 cm |
| Width | 15.5 cm |
| Depth | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1424 - Other Number |
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