Clappers

Museum number:
5-3046a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1717
Object count:
2
Description:
Pair of round clappers; Bopunung; used like castanets; consists of two hollow seeds with enclosed pebbles (?) to make rattle sounds; seeds fastened to single piece of braided twine.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Birom; Bukuru
Culture or time period:
Birom
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Collection date:
1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical instruments
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Clappers, accession number 5-3046a,b, described as Pair of round clappers; Bopunung; used like castanets; consists of two hollow seeds with enclosed pebbles (?) to make rattle sounds; seeds fastened to single piece of braided twine.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Clappers, accession number 5-3046a,b, described as Pair of round clappers; Bopunung; used like castanets; consists of two hollow seeds with enclosed pebbles (?) to make rattle sounds; seeds fastened to single piece of braided twine.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Clappers, accession number 5-3046a,b, described as Pair of round clappers; Bopunung; used like castanets; consists of two hollow seeds with enclosed pebbles (?) to make rattle sounds; seeds fastened to single piece of braided twine.

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