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Resonating body

Only the resonating body of a monoheterochord music bow ? a calabash half, is preserved. A ring running along the edge of the resonator, tied there and wrapped with rattan strips. Severe breakage. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bule
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Höhe: 10 cm
Durchmesser: 15,5 cm
Material/Technique
Calabash, Plant fibres , Cord (twisted)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 12359

Provenance and sources

when
1900 (um)
where
Cameroon [Land]
Sasang
who
Bule

who
Georg Zenker (1855-06-11 - 1922) - Collectors

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