Only the outer handle pin [is] extended in mirror image. A saddle pin of the same shape. At the opposite end of the rod [this is] carved on one side only. In front of it [is] a perforation drilled vertically through the stick. String material [is] not preserved. The calabash collar [is] tied to the staff with two strings of twisted plant material in notches in the staff. The two components are tied together through two pairs of perforations in the collar and in the calabash resonator. An additional tethering loop [is] passed through a central perforation in the spherical calabash. Crossbar fastening on the inside. No quill preserved. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix object catalogue)