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Alghaita

This woodwind instrument with a double reed has a body cut from wood with two circumferential notched rings on the fork head and two times three decorations on the lower section of the body. It is an alghaita whose mouthpiece is probably not the original one.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 51,5 cm
Depth: 7,5 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood , Metal , Plant fibre , Textile
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 311

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Africa
    Morocco
    Sahara
  • Collecting
    who
    Christian Schneider (1942-09-08 - 2021-06-20) - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation, 2019
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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