bell;
clapper
- Museum number
- Af.4699.a
- Description
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A crescent shaped wooden bell or clapper, with carved patterns; a small beater of brown wood is attached to a loop in the centre.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37 centimetres (a+b with cord connecting them)
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Height: 5.60 centimetres (a)
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Height: 10.50 centimetres (b)
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Width: 12.40 centimetres (a)
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Width: 1.10 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 2.20 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 1 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to the Lower Congo by W B Fagg.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Christy numbers 4677 to 4806 were given to the BM by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1855 on the closure of the naval Haslar Hospital (qv) in Gosport. There is no record of who gave it to the hospital, or where it had come from.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.4699.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af186?C1.4699a (old CDMS no.)