IDNO

P.74505.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a “Sansi, musical instrument, attached to it on an iron plate are discs cut out of snail shells and used as rattles. Given to Miss Werner by a Yao boy from Blantyre. Mang’ang’a (s) of Shire Valley.” [from MAA Object record E.1896.23, JD 1/4/2010]

Place

C Africa; Malawi; Shire Valley; Blantyre

Cultural Affliation

?Yao; ?Mang’ang’a

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

?Chapman, Henry Arburn (Esq.); Werner (Miss) Collection [Object Donor]

Date

?1905

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C461/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Two prints were found in sleeve P.74506.MUS, the second photograph has been assigned the accession number P.109432.MUS, JD 1/4/2010

Publication: Chapman, Henry Arburn, 1904. A Handbook to the collection of antiquities and other objects exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2nd ed. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) viii, 79 p. : ill., plates, plans (fol.) ; 21 cm. [JD 1/4/2010]