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TanzaniaUha
Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Shell zither
An elongated bowl with steep inner cross walls and longitudinal walls that merge with the floor in a curve. An almost rectangular opening outline. [There are eight diagonally drilled string guide perforations. Eight strings. One end of the string is tied to a crosspiece behind an outer perforation, the other is wrapped around a stem extension carved lengthways. An unused stem perforation. Four cord loops hanging down below the base of the bowl and fixed by a knot above a perforation in the base. There are three star-shaped perforations in the centre line of the bowl base. A head carved in full relief at the end of the stem process. This [is] hung with strings of beads and decorated with eye discs. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- musical instruments
- Dimensions
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Length: 73,5 cm
Width: 12,4 cm
Height: 6,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Plant fibre
, Ivory
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III E 6848
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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