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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu
Jew's harp

Cut from one piece of bamboo cane as a frame with a springy tongue, which is made to vibrate by means of a string. With this simple instrument the mouth cavity serves as a resonance chamber for modelling the tones. The narrow model is cut from cut from a light-coloured bamboo.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
idiophones
Dimensions
10 x 155 x 20 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25300
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05

Provenance and sources

when
19th century
where
Japan
Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido

when
1907

when
1910-15-05
Source(s)
Konvolutakte RJM 1910/05

when
1910-15-05
Source(s)
Konvolutakte RJM 1910/05
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