A cylindrical wooden body with a closed base and a large, rectangular side opening. A pegged and nailed reptile skin membrane. The string support is a straight round timber which widens into a square shape at the point where the front wooden peg passes through. The thick string cord, twisted from plant fibres, first wraps around the peg, then around the neck below it in a round notch, forming a loop that encloses the string. The bow is a thin, curved roundwood stick with strings of plant fibre wrapped around the ends of the bow. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)