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East AfricaNorth-East Africa
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Shell lyre
The instrument body is a longitudinal oval calabash half with a glued-on membrane. Longitudinal arms diverging towards the crossbar and resting with their lower, joined ends in the spout of the calabash. Four strings. The string material (woollen cord) probably not original. Ball rings binding the strings together with strips of cloth. The lower ends of the strings are knotted into a large loop that runs around the slightly protruding bar ends. The long arms and the yoke angles are wrapped in reptile or mammal skin. Skin flap coverings at the points where the longitudinal arms penetrate the membrane. Eighteen small, round perforations symmetrically arranged in four groups in the body cover. Stripes of incised pattern following the edge of the shell on the outside of the shell. An animal motif in the centre line. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- musical instruments
- Dimensions
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Length: 49,3 cm
Width: 26,9 cm
Height: 8 cm - Material/Technique
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Calabash, Leather (reptile), Leather
, Cord (twisted), Fabric (cotton)
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 40261
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who
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Alfred Klinkmüller (1912-02-21 - 1977-08-10) - Collectors
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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