A narrow, flat and very elongated bowl with a flat base, steep inner walls and widening narrow sides (type B). The outer strings run alongside the bowl opening. [There are six diagonally drilled string guide perforations. Six strings. The string cord is only fragmentary. One end of the string [is] tied to a crosspiece behind an outer perforation. The other was probably wrapped around a handle extension carved lengthways (traces of wear). [There is] a leather strap tied around the bowl below the string level. The sound box [is] not preserved. There are two small perforations in the bottom of the bowl. One of them [is] surrounded by a star-shaped notched pattern on the outside of the bottom of the bowl. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)