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Description: | The suura koma horn is always played in pairs. It is held vertically, extending over the player's head, with the right hand supporting the mouthpiece. The suura koma is reserved exclusively for use in ritual music and dance honouring the spirits of the dead.
Suura koma, brass crescent-shaped horn, made in three sections. The bore of the proximal section tapers sharply to a narrow tube supporting the mouthpiece. Four rings encircle the body of the instrument, two of them at the joints. A badge is fixed to the tube above the distal ring, and a thin metal garland of undulating outline encircles the bell. It was made in Parlakhemundi, Gajapathi, Orissa, India (date unknown).
caption: Lateral view from right of object no. 2007.349.
caption: Lateral view from right of object no. 2007.349 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | horns 423.121.22 End blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes with mouthpiece brass | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-187634 | Go to resource |
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