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Date
1930 – 1945
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
108.05.0087
Description
A short, tin, horn shaped noisemaker. Horn is a cone which flares out into a bell at the end, small, wire ring, 1.5 diam, soldered to horn so it hangs down underneath the horn and acts as a handle to either grip or slide one's finger through. Large, 5.3 x 1.1 cm, safety pin fastened through the rin…
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Title
Noisemaker
Date
1930 – 1945
Material
metal
Dimensions
7.0 cm
Description
A short, tin, horn shaped noisemaker. Horn is a cone which flares out into a bell at the end, small, wire ring, 1.5 diam, soldered to horn so it hangs down underneath the horn and acts as a handle to either grip or slide one's finger through. Large, 5.3 x 1.1 cm, safety pin fastened through the ring. Cone is truncated with small round opening at mouthpiece end. Brass coloured, vibrating disk inside cone at mouth piece end is held in place between two ferrules, and has two small rectangular tongues cut through the metal which vibrate when the horn is buzzed with the lips.
Subject
Whyte home
households
pastime
entertainment
minstrel show
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
108.05.0087
Images
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