Working photo | Photographer: Juliane Padluschat | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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A large wooden instrument body with a thick-walled front and back. The back and long walls are rounded towards the base, while the front slopes steeply downwards. A wooden top board leaving the rear opening section uncovered, laced at four points with skin straps and additionally fastened with an iron nail. On the long sides there is an additional resin board. Wooden bows, sharply curved upwards and pointed at both ends, inserted into the interior of the body through seven of the eight end wall perforations. Small string guide slots on the rear edge of the top board. Two round perforations in the centre line of the body top. Are the two long wooden bows added to the instrument and the bone plate with seven perforations and string fragments inside the body part of the original equipment of the bowed lute? from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
