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Museum number:
5-11710
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
length 31 centimeters and width 4 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:
1938
Museum number:
5-11714
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
length 23 centimeters and width 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:
1938
Museum number:
5-6282
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Dimensions:
height 88 centimeters
Collector:
Philip Peek
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
June 1966
Museum number:
5-15932
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Bull-roarers
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
length 34.5 centimeters and width 7 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1951
Museum number:
5-7656
Culture or time period:
Ibibio
Object class:
Rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collection place:
Southwest Nigeria
Museum number:
5-7633
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Dimensions:
height 48 centimeters and diameter 24 centimeters
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
ca. 1967
Museum number:
5-7671a,b
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Dimensions:
a— diameter 30 centimeters, a— height 32 centimeters, and b— length 40 centimeters
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
ca. 1967
Museum number:
5-7655
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collection place:
Nigeria
Museum number:
5-11478
Culture or time period:
Hausa
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collector:
Thomas D. Lanagan
Collection place:
Nigeria
Museum number:
5-10281a,b
Object class:
Drums (membranophones) and Drumsticks (percussion beaters)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Dimensions:
(a)— 42 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1944