Clappers
MOA: University of British Columbia
3124/4
Set of bamboo clappers. Instrument consists of five rectangular pieces of curved bamboo seperated by metal washers. The bamboo is finished in lacquer. These are joined together with a braided, unbleached cotton rope looped through two holes bored through each clapper and the holes at the centre of each washer. The rope is knotted on one side of the instrument.
- Type of Item clapper
- Culture Chinese
- Material bamboo grass, cotton fibre, metal, lacquer
- Measurements height 11.5 cm, width 4.5 cm, depth 6.0 cm (overall)
- Previous Owner Kate Stevens, Anonymous
- Received from Anonymous
- Made in Shandong
- Ownership Date before July 23, 2015
- Acquisition Date on July 23, 2015
- Condition good
- Accession Number 3124/0004