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 The original string, which has since been replaced by foreign material, has not survived.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)