Trumpet ·  Tanzania, Zaramo · ID: 3039180

Description

from ivory with bell mouth made from wood, fixed by animal skin firmly strapped by leather strings, ivory and wood dyed with reddish brown patina, the ivory head flattened on both sides and decorated with engraved circle pattern, the bell mouth in the lower area carved with a broad band filled with linear decor in bas-relief, collection number “383”, slightly dam., probably a piece of animal skin supplemented, abrasion of paint

The object Trumpet with the object ID 3039180 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 543 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,400.

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Comparing literature

Jahn, Jens (Hg.), Tanzania, München 1994, p. 136, fig. 43