The horns below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes.
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
Horns, trumpets and other aerophone instruments are among the important art forms in Africa, used both as a musical instrument and as a work of sculpture significant in many religious and secular ceremonial functions. These examples from the Tikar people incorporate the human form as the finial of the instrument.
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