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This cone-shaped bell with wide flaring opening is missing its clapper. It may have been worn as a neck ornament.
Julie Jones, Curator of Pre-Columbian art at The Museum of Primitive Art identified this as a copper bell; also possibly
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Title: Bell
Date: late 19th century
Geography: Sicasica, Bolivia
Culture: Bolivian
Medium: Copper?
Dimensions: H. 3.3 x Greatest Diam. 2.2cm (1 5/16 x 7/8in.)
Classification: Idiophone-Struck-bell-without clapper
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.3429
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