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A string [consists] of twisted plant fibre. A flat wooden stick. The three handle pins [are] carved on one side only. A scissor-like fork on the other end of the stick [is] vertical. Only the upper tip of the fork has an extension for attaching the string. A leather strap loop inside the spherical resonator calabash [is] looped into a knot. In the resonator [are] rows of perforations as remnants of old break seams. Between the three handle points [are] two expansions of the stick surface. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Wakamba
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 66 cm
Width: 18,7 cm
Height: 22,6 cm
Diameter: 21 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Pumpkin peel, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 16430

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    who
    Wakamba
  • Collecting
    who
    Frau S. Scheffler - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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