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bowed shell spit sounds

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The body is a ring cut out of a coconut shell and covered on one side with a single row of pegged mammal skin membrane. A round wooden string carrier tapering conically towards the spit. A long, protruding wooden peg passing through a square attachment. There is a fragment of string made of plant material. The bridge and the bow are not preserved. Two sewn cracks in the body wall. A large, fully carved figure at the top of the string support. A wooden rod runs through it at hip height. A notched pattern on the roundwood. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Objektmaß: L:62,5 cm, H:14,5 cm, B:16,2 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Fruit peel (coconut), Leather , Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 19562

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    East Africa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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