masenqo

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masenqo

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Like no. 243 [III A 1010 a-b] However, the type of board joint is unclear. The string support is a round wooden stick carved in a variety of ways. A wooden peg with a square head behind it. The string is wound onto it together with string made of plant material. The lower end of the string is passed through a perforation in the apex of a high, angled wooden bridge and immediately afterwards is knotted in the spout of a long loop of twisted plant material looped around the spit. No bindings on the instrument. The bow is an evenly curved, thin round wooden stick. The entire instrument is black in colour. A cross-shaped neck tip. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 30,2 cm
Length: 7,1 cm
Width: 6,8 cm
Length: 63,4 cm
Width: 23,9 cm
Height: 18 cm
Length: 24,5 cm
Width: 23,9 cm
Height: 8,8 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Hair (horse), Leather
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 50 a,b

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Ethiopia
  • Collecting
    who
    Peter Scholz - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1974
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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