Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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The body is a frame glued together from four inwardly curved wooden boards and covered on one side with a glued-on mammal skin membrane. Paper overlays on the outside of the frame. The long sides of the frame perforated three times each. A turned round wooden stick is attached as a neck to the first round, then square, iron spike, which protrudes long below the resonator. A ring-shaped spike base. A pegbox recessed in the neck with two wooden flank pegs inserted from the right and left. The lower tailpiece is an iron ring suspended in an iron eyelet below the resonator. The strings, the bridge (both replaced in the meantime) and the bow are not preserved. A skin overlay near the lower edge of the membrane. The neck tip and the spherical pegheads are decoratively turned. "Only one gut string is present. " from Ulrich Wegner: African stringed instruments, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix object catalogue)
