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rebaba

The body is a cut coconut shell covered with a glued-on fish skin membrane and perforated several times. The strings are supported by a round timber with a turned wooden foot attached to the thin spike extension underneath the shell. A recessed pegbox with two flank pegs running through it from the right and left. Two strings made of twisted nylon material. Two string guide notches in the slightly raised edge of the pegbox. An almost cylindrical wooden bridge. The lower strings are attached to the spike between the resonator and the wooden attachment. A bow is missing. The peg, spit attachment and neck tip are decoratively turned. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Araber
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 75,3 cm
Width: 17,2 cm
Height: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, coconut (body) (skin (top) nylon (strings)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII b 71

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Egypt
    Upper Egypt
    who
    Araber
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1972
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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