A horn, (perhaps of the African Buffalo.) used to call them together

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 18

Additional Source Text:

Aurora (Philadelphia) 28 Nov 1806 reads: "Instrument, made of Buffaloe's horn, used by the Africans in their hunting parties -- by Mr. A. Woodsides, junr."

The donor was from Savanah.

Notes:

This may have been a mbiu, a side-blown instrument of the Swahili-speaking peoples of east Africa historically used by town criers to signal the delivery of an important proclamation to the public. An example from Kenya is pictured here.

An Abraham Woodside was commissoned an ensign in the Georgia state militia in 1806.