Gajde
late 19th century
Medium
Goatskin, wood, horn, nickel-silver
Classification
Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-bagpipe
Culture
Croatian
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange with The New York Public Library, 1976.
Accession Number
1976.8.22
About the Artist
Unknown
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