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)