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Wakamba
Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Bowl spit lute with resonator
The body is a spherical calabash, cut on both sides, with a square opening at the top covered with a pegged membrane of mammal skin. A round perforation at the bottom. A piece of branch, angled upwards at its free tip, penetrates the calabash wall at two points covered by overlapping parts of the membrane. A string of twisted plant material. Dotted patterns on the calabash surface (including plant motifs and characters). "In addition a small bow." from Ulrich Wegner: African stringed instruments, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)
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- Cultural attribution
- Wakamba
- Object type
- musical instruments
- Dimensions
- Objektmaß: L:70,5 cm, H:33 cm, D:20,8 cm
- Material/Technique
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Wood, Pumpkin peel, Plant fibre
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III E 16428 a,b
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Frau S. Scheffler - 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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