Gong
- Museum number:
- 18-716
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21180000716
- Alternate number:
- 2156 (additional number, acc. number) and 228 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2156
- Description:
- Gong of brass;with dome protruding in center;fiber carrying cord; rim diam. 20.7 cm.
- Donor:
- Nancy Tanner and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Minangkabau highlands, West Sumatra, Sumatra
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Indonesia,W.Sumatra; Minangkabau (SP)
- Culture or time period:
- Minangkabau
- Collection date:
- 1965-1966
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gongs
- Function:
- 7.2 Sound Communication
- Accession date:
- 1966
- Context of use:
- Used as alarm,in ceremonies,to call people to meetings,to call work crews in rice fields.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #64: Southeast Asian Studies Department (UC Berkeley) (March 31, 1977–May 26, 1977) and S1978-1979 #7: Music Library (UC Berkeley)/Ann Basart (July 13, 1978–October 25, 1978)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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