Propeller Indiana’s Hand Bell: Museum Object and Cultural History
Propeller Indiana’s Hand Bell: Object Name: bell. Physical Description: wood (overall material). Physical Description: metal (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
Found on the wreck of the propeller steamer Indiana, a bell as small as this one would have been too small to serve as a fog signal for any distance. It probably would have been used to signal crew watch changes, as a dinner bell, or possibly to signal someone on a nearby shore.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: bell
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: average spatial: 24.37 cm x 12.96 cm; 9 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in
- Measurements: overall: 9 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 24.765 cm x 13.335 cm
- related event: Expansion and Reform
- ID Number: 1979.1030.15
- catalog number: 1979.1030.15
- accession number: 1979.1030
- Credit Line: Gift of Michigan Department of State, Michigan History Division (through Bruce J. Andrews)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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