Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International
As no. 85 [-> III E 16644] Eight plant stems of unequal length cut off at the stem nodes. These [are] bound together to form a raft by plant string material, which is wound several times around the width of the raft at both ends and the string band between the individual tubes is tied together again crosswise. [It has] eight epidermis strings. Two leaf stalks pushed transversely under the strings [serve] as bridges. On the back of the raft [are] eight string-like epidermal detachments interwoven with transverse strips of bark to form a stabilising network]. However, it [has] thirteen raft sections and thirteen string-like strips (two added). On the underside of the raft [is a] thin plant leaf material pushed under the epidermis detachments. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
