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Image number: 1093
Feature : bell
Grouping : churches and monuments
Discipline : arts & architecture
Year : 2005
Locality : Rock church Neakuto Leaeb
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Welo
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : notice Big stone plates, hanging on roops are used as bells. They give nice and loud soundings. The priest uses the stone-bell to call the people
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2005    Image 1093.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"