Thighbone trumpet;purple dyed leather stretched over one end;L.31.5 cm.
Donor:
Sallie Frances de Vine
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet att.
Collection date:
before 1946
Materials:
Bone (material) and Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Femurs and Trumpets (aerophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
Used in pairs during religious & necromatic rites.The sound of the drum & trumpet call the spirits in relig.rites. Info supplied by ProfLewis Lancaster,UCB Dept of Oriental Lang, 1976