A long wooden body, strongly rounded on all sides towards the base. The longitudinal edges of the skin membrane are stretched against each other with skin straps that zigzag across the base of the bowl. The neck is a short, strongly curved roundwood. Grommet shaft shape. A cylindrical socket completely wrapped in a separate piece of skin. Five short, cylindrical flank pegs. The upper ends of the five strings of twisted animal tissue are looped several times around the peg and around the neck above and below it. Two long string cords wound around the tailpiece and a single string wound on. A wooden tailpiece inserted into the skin. Six burnt-in perforations in the short upright section resting on the membrane. Two pairs of small, round perforations in the top of the body. A small, carved tenon process on the rear edge of the body. A round, burnt opening in the centre of the body base. "Engagement harp oudjila; unused, . . . Kirdi, Cameroon." "Northern Cameroon, Mandara plain. Engagement harp among the Oudjillas." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)