hammer clapper

Classification: 1 Idiophones / 11 Struck idiophones
Maker: Unknown
Date: 1937
Village / Town: Zaczernie
Region: Subcarpathia
Country: Poland
Owner: Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów
Inventory number: MRE 4011
Measurements: 110 x 100 x 215 x 110 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Performance practice: formerly used to make ritual noise during the folk Koledari ceremonies, instead of church bells during the Holy Week, to frighten away animals during hunting, and to signal vigilance by night watchmen (in towns), nowadays also a toy
Catalog card by: Jolanta Pękacz / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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