Bell

Museum number:
9-22120
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BY.C-06 and C-06 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Description:
Bronze bell fashioned in the shape of a stupa.
Donor:
Estate of G. Eleanore Murray, Estate of Theos C. Bernard, and Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Myanmar (Burma)
Verbatim coll. place:
India or Burma
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Production date:
18th-19th century
Accession date:
March 12, 2004
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
KAMALA (Eleanore Murray's nickname) is written in green on a piece of paper taped to the bottom body of bell. Eleanore was a practicing Buddhist who frequented a Tibetan Buddhist center in the Los Felices area of Los Angeles. Members at that center use a bell (ghanta) and vajra in the course of their meditations and chants. It may be that this item was used by Eleanor at that center and labled accordingly.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Bell, accession number 9-22120, described as Bronze bell fashioned in the shape of a stupa.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Bell, accession number 9-22120, described as Bronze bell fashioned in the shape of a stupa.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Bell, accession number 9-22120, described as Bronze bell fashioned in the shape of a stupa.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Bell, accession number 9-22120, described as Bronze bell fashioned in the shape of a stupa.

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