ligombo
A narrow, flat and very elongated bowl with a flat base, steep inner walls and widening narrow sides (type B). The outer string courses run alongside the bowl opening. [There are six diagonally burnt-in string guide perforations. One end of the string is tied to a crosspiece behind an outer perforation, the other [is] wrapped around a stem extension carved lengthways, a fully sculpted figure, and also tied to a crosspiece. A wide calabash resonator open at the top. A loop of string running around the string carrier below the string level, which passes through the opening into the resonator and is looped into a knot on the underside of the calabash base. In the resonator [there are] four slit or cross-shaped perforations and break seams. On the calabash wall [there are] flat punctures. Animal motifs. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix object catalogue)
Cataloguing data
Durchmesser: 35,2 - 36 cm (Resonator)
Länge: 106,4 cm