The body of the instrument is a slightly trapezoidal frame made of four wooden planks nailed together and fitted with a bottom and a top plate. The likewise nailed bottom and top plates were probably originally part of a tin canister. The top plate has a stamped inscription and a large, round sound hole. The semicircular wooden neck is set into the front of the box at an obtuse angle to the ceiling plane and rests with its end on an inner cross brace. A flat, carved peg holder plate with five slotted wooden pegs at the back. One peg is missing. Five preserved strings made of nylon and twisted plant fibre. The capo is a crosspiece with a joint running around the back of the neck. The lower tailpiece is a wedge-shaped piece of sheet metal nailed to the lower rib board and bent over onto the body top. The string ends are fixed with knots underneath perforations in the edge of the sheet metal. The inside of the body contains pieces of wood, fabric and fish bone. "Guitar (used), acquired in the Kasaali fishing camp, Buvuma; made by a fisherman from pieces of wood and sheet metal; belongs to the present-day subculture of the fishermen of Lake Victoria." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)