Bellow

Museum number:
5-15628
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4556
Description:
Bellows, wood. Tapered wood body with two air chambers and double elongated exit tubes (resembling animal snout). Leather diaphragms attached to top of air chambers with coarse twine. Wood stick operating handles. Length (body) circa 70.0 cm, Width circa 35.0 cm. (Note: hair present on back of leather diaphragms). From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa; Zaire; Shaba Province; near Dilolo Gare; Chokwe
Culture or time period:
Chokwe
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Collection date:
1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bellows (fire controlling equipment)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bellow, accession number 5-15628, described as Bellows, wood. Tapered wood body with two air chambers and double elongated exit tubes (resembling animal snout). Leather diaphragms attached to top of air chambers with coarse twine. Wood stick operating handles. Length (body) circa 70.0 cm, Width circa 35.0 cm. (Note: hair present on back of leather diaphragms). From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bellow, accession number 5-15628, described as Bellows, wood. Tapered wood body with two air chambers and double elongated exit tubes (resembling animal snout). Leather diaphragms attached to top of air chambers with coarse twine. Wood stick operating handles. Length (body) circa 70.0 cm, Width circa 35.0 cm. (Note: hair present on back of leather diaphragms). From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bellow, accession number 5-15628, described as Bellows, wood. Tapered wood body with two air chambers and double elongated exit tubes (resembling animal snout). Leather diaphragms attached to top of air chambers with coarse twine. Wood stick operating handles. Length (body) circa 70.0 cm, Width circa 35.0 cm. (Note: hair present on back of leather diaphragms). From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.

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