Peru
Peruvian 

Horn, cloth, leather, glue, metal
Early-Mid 20th century
Diameter: 11.25 in; Total Tubing Length: 66.5 in
Aerophones – Wind Instruments Proper – Lip Vibrated

A ceremonial waqra phuku (Quechua language: waqra horn, phuku blow, also spelled wak’rapuku, waqrapuku) type of trumpet used by the indigenous peoples of Peru in the Andes.  Some regions call it huajrapuco.  It is used to accompany the small-framed tinya drum (also found in this collection), at ritual festivals associated with branding stock/cattle.  

This decorative waqra phuku has several symbolic brass plates on leather attached by nails and paste to the spiral shape, that is constructed of cattle horns.   At one end is the smaller opening through which one buzzes their lips into the horn.  There are no holes for changing the pitches/notes. 

Both ends are decorated with woven fiber.  The horns are nailed together and then wrapped with leather.  The provenance indicates that this was field collected in the 1950s.