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East Africa
sese/zeze | Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalA vertically bifurcated rod end with two pincer-shaped tips curved inwards. The second of the two strings [is] made of twisted bast material stretched along one side of the bar. The entire resonator construction is missing. On both narrow sides of the saddles [are] traces of use due to string stretching. In front of and between the three fingering points [one] pointed widening of the stick surface on both sides. A scale-shaped notched pattern [is] on the entire surface of the sides of the stick. "Also the gourd decorated." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)