Cowbell

Museum number:
3-27777
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030027777
Alternate number:
7-58 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.33
Description:
Cowbell; iron forged cowbell with arched ring at top; triangular cross-section; clapper missing; height 13.8 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Guadalupe, Guadalupe Valley, Ensenada municipality
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Sonora; Baja California; Guadalupe
Culture or time period:
Tipai-Ipai
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
before 1902
Materials:
Iron (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cowbells (animal husbandry) and Cowbells (bell type)
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
January 8, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
height 13.8 centimeters
Comment:
Recatalogued from 7-58 by Barbara Busch in 1977.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cowbell, accession number 3-27777, described as Cowbell; iron forged cowbell with arched ring at top; triangular cross-section; clapper missing; height 13.8 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cowbell, accession number 3-27777, described as Cowbell; iron forged cowbell with arched ring at top; triangular cross-section; clapper missing; height 13.8 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cowbell, accession number 3-27777, described as Cowbell; iron forged cowbell with arched ring at top; triangular cross-section; clapper missing; height 13.8 cm.

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