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TanzaniaUsumbura (Ussumburra)Uschirombo (?)
Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalOnly the resonator, a spherical calabash open at the bottom, and a padded ring wrapped in strips of cloth are preserved. A perforation opposite the resonator opening [present]. Branding on the entire calabash surface, arranged in a circle around the central perforation. [The triangular shapes [are] densely filled with longitudinal and transverse hatching. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix to the object catalogue) Main catalogue: "Resonanzbogen, Flaschenkürbis mit Strichmustern. b.) Ring aus Zeug. Index card: "Only the gourd, open on one side, and a ring (probably padding) wrapped in strips of cloth are preserved. The padding is certainly not attached in the correct place.