Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Two strings made of twisted bast fibre. One string [is] stretched along one side of the bar. The resonator and calabash collar [are] connected by a thick string of twisted plant material. Inside the spherical calabash [a] cross-wood connection of the loop. At one end, the string carrier rises slightly, tapering at the same time. Fracture suturing in the resonator with [a] vegetable string. In the vertical plane [are] numerous pointed and circular expansions of the bar surface on both sides or one side. On both sides [are] notched patterns (geometric motifs/animal motifs), more elaborately executed on the string-covered surface. There a round and rectangular wooden recess integrated into the notched pattern. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
