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MoçambiqueTanzaniaMalawi
Photographer: Svenja Strauss | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Shell spit sounds
A reptile skin membrane pegged over the opening of the pot-like wooden body. A straight round wooden stick with a long front peg serves as a string carrier. The thick string twisted from plant fibres is looped around an iron nail stuck in the cross-section of the end of the spike. There is also a loose string wrapped around the rod. Two notches cut into the back of the neck underneath the peg (probably for moving a tuning loop). The side of the bowl wall has a large, almost rectangular opening, while the base of the bowl has a round opening in the centre with a raised rim and two additional perforations. A remnant of cord there. A decorative nail on some parts of the outside of the body. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix to the object catalogue)
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- Object type
- musical instruments
- Dimensions
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Length: 68,4 cm
Width: 15,5 cm
Height: 18,1 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Skin (reptile), Plant material
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III E 3874
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Bülow, Albrecht von - CollectorsFrieda von Bülow (1857-10-12 - 1909-03-12) - Former Possessors
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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