There are sixteen strips of string detached from the epidermis between the two non-perforated bamboo nodes. Under each string [are] two calabash bridges. Where the strings have grown together with the epidermis, the cane is wrapped four or five times with a thin plant stalk. The two ends of the wrapping material [are] each anchored in the cane with small pegs. ". . . made and used by the Beosy. Made and used by men. Place: Antranokoaka, Madagascar." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)