Twelve strips of stringers [are] detached from the epidermis between the two pierced bamboo nodes. Fourteen bars of different heights, [and] pieces of bark from a palm leaf stalk, [are] preserved. Where the strings have grown together with the epidermis, the tube is wrapped six or seven times with wool and plant fibre cord. A carrying loop [is present] connected through a perforation in the edge of the tube. Incised patterns [are] on one end of the tube. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)