Side view | Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalMonoheterochord music bow
(a) A bent round stick made of wood with pointed ends. A stretched calabash half is inserted through the resonator. A mammal skin membrane pegged to the outside of the resonator [is present]. The string is missing. It ran through four incisions in the centre of the membrane, forming two skin loops. Two large, round sound holes in the bottom of the calabash. The baton is missing. It is accompanied by a curved stick. 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: cm
Diameter: 13 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Pumpkin peel
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III E 4442 a,b
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Provenance and sources
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Collecting
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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