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Kalimba

Sansa The instrument is a small lamellophone made of calabar with the eight lamellae attached in a W-shaped chain-stitch arrangement. The resonance box was nailed together from no less than six rectangular parts: Soundboard, back and four side walls: the absence of any decoration is striking. Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, p. 135

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 4,9 cm
Depth: 9,2 cm
Width: 17,4 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 26823

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Nigeria
    New Calabar (New Calabar)
  • Collecting
    who
    M. Claus - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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