Bell

Museum number:
9-13379
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090013379
Alternate number:
3628 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number)) and 3849 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Rattle; iron with bronze nails and lead holding two halves together; handle is hollow and has a gold silk tassel with a glass blue bead. Circumference: 2 x 20 cm., 11.5 cm. long excluding tassel.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China; ; Unsp
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 9-13379, described as Rattle; iron with bronze nails and lead holding two halves together; handle is hollow and has a gold silk tassel with a glass blue bead. Circumference: 2 x 20 cm., 11.5 cm. long excluding tassel.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 9-13379, described as Rattle; iron with bronze nails and lead holding two halves together; handle is hollow and has a gold silk tassel with a glass blue bead. Circumference: 2 x 20 cm., 11.5 cm. long excluding tassel.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 9-13379, described as Rattle; iron with bronze nails and lead holding two halves together; handle is hollow and has a gold silk tassel with a glass blue bead. Circumference: 2 x 20 cm., 11.5 cm. long excluding tassel.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 9-13379, described as Rattle; iron with bronze nails and lead holding two halves together; handle is hollow and has a gold silk tassel with a glass blue bead. Circumference: 2 x 20 cm., 11.5 cm. long excluding tassel.

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