Quadruple bell - Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Europe - CC BY-NC-SA.
https://www.europeana.eu/de/item/09102/_MINIM_UK_43481
Origin: Calabar, Nigeria; sub-Sahara Africa; North and South America and the Caribbean
Materials: Made of wood in cruciform shape that came from "Old Calabar." The instrument is built with two sections carved with a cube-shaped bell on both ends that join together at the center stems through a halving joint, thus making a cross. Each bell has three internal wooden clappers. It would be, where
Family: Percussion
Use: The player holds the instrument at the center of the cross handle and shaken to produce sound.
Social context: Used as a dancing rattle
Link: Metmuseum
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instrument