Figure: horn player

Unknown (Nigerian)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
1550-1680
Height:
63.0 cm  (24 13/16 in.)
Width:
29.4 cm  (11 9/16 in.)
Depth:
17.2 cm  (6 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
brass
Place of creation:
Benin (Nigeria)

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1978.412.310]

Description

Figure of a court musician (Edo peoples) playing a side-blown horn or trumpet.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Horn [4118] (side-blown)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Sounding forms: African musical instruments, ed. by Marie-Thérèse Brincard (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1989) 178, cat. no. 151. RILM 1989-03674.

RIdIM record id

5089