Instrument
- Museum number:
- 9-10941a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210910941a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 304 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- Instrument, percussion; wood & tin with tamborine parts; 2 parts (a,b) are hit together; Length. 23 cm.; wifth 8 cm. each
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Varanasi (city), Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India,Utter Pradesh,; Benares
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Tin (metal) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Musical instruments
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Used by men & women as ritual instrument to accompany chants; held in right hand, thumb is inserted into hole of one,four fingers in hole of other,then hit together rhythmically. "A pair of wooden clappers with jingles made of thin brass discs inserted into the body is played with one hand, held between thumb and four fingers. The surface with thin metal bands are struck together. the "kartal" is used in devotional singing and dance for rhythmic accompaniment, often in conjunction with the "ektara." [a type of string instrument]" Caption from India exhibit, 1975. see 9-10942 for another example. Made by men of carpenter caste - "Suthar.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 23 centimeters and width 8 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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