The waqra phuku is a type of trumpet used by Indigenous peoples in the central and southern Andean regions of Peru. The instrument is made from a series of connected cow horn (as in this example) or metal segments. The waqra phuku is associated with cattle branding rituals and is often accompanied in those contexts by a tinya drum.
Shepherd's trumpet
- Collection History
- Collected by Earl Wanser (1883-1954, a carpenter who worked intermittently in Peru between 1920 and 1924); purchased by MAI from Earl Wanser in 1924.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Quechua
- Collector
- Earl Wanser, Non-Indian, 1883-1954
- Previous owner
- Earl Wanser, Non-Indian, 1883-1954
- Seller
- Earl Wanser, Non-Indian, 1883-1954
- Date created
- circa 1910
- Object Name
- Shepherd's trumpet
- Media/Materials
- Cow horn, wood, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Cut, drilled, pegged, carved, tied
- Dimensions
- 47 x 26 x 16 cm
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
