kisir | Photographer: Andreas Richter | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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The body shell is a round enamelled bowl. Wire tensioning of the membrane against a skin tensioning ring resting on the outside of the bowl. Diverging longitudinal arms. Five wire strings. Ball rings that bind the upper string ends together with strips of cloth. The lower tailpiece is a wire loop that extends from the tension ring to the top. On the membrane, a spool of thread core flattened at the support, with a slim, cylindrical piece of plastic inserted into the edge notches as a bridge. A piece of cardboard is inserted between the spool of thread and the membrane to protect the support. Attached to the longitudinal arms are a plastic holding cord, a skin plectrum and a wooden stick. Several irregularly shaped and distributed perforations in the membrane skin. A tear in the membrane. Where the skin does not reach over the edge of the bowl, it is tied to the tension ring with additional wire. A green painting on the underside of the bowl - decoration: bowl painted green on the outside and with Arabic inscription. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
