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Shell spit sounds

One opening of the coconut shell, cut on both sides, is covered with a pegged membrane made of mammal skin. The string carrier is a round wooden stick that penetrates through the shell near the membrane opening. A long, thin, foremost wooden peg. The original string, which has since been replaced by foreign material, has not survived. Below the peg, a circumferential notched pattern band on a section of the stick that tapers to a square shape. Decorative nails. A fully carved human figure at the tip of the neck. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Usaramo
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 57 cm
Width: 11,8 cm
Height: 14,4 cm
Material/Technique
Brass, Wood, Leather , Plant fibre , Coconut
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 3590

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Tanzania
    who
    Usaramo
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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