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The body shell is an almost longitudinal oval, curved calabash shell. Skin strap tensioning the membrane against a skin tensioning ring resting on the underside of the shell. Longitudinal arms diverging only slightly towards the crossbar. Five wire strings. Ball rings that bind the upper string ends together with vegetable string. The lower tailpiece is a wire loop which extends from an iron crossbar on the outer wall through a wall and membrane perforation to the top. A transverse iron nail protects the contact point between the wire ring and the membrane. Attached to the longitudinal arms is a double holding cord (fabric/woollen cord) and a small, boat-shaped plastic pick. An angular wooden bridge. A round perforation in the centre of the bowl curvature. Eighteen small, almost symmetrically distributed membrane perforations. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Tumtum-Nuba
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 65,3 cm
Width: 32 cm
Height: 12,5 cm
Length: 29,7 cm
Width: 25 cm
Height: 10 cm
Length: 2,7 cm
Width: 1,3 cm
Height: 1,9 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Calabash, Fur, Metal
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 37

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Sudan
    who
    Tumtum-Nuba
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1974
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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