Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalWorking photo | Photographer: Hendryk Ortlieb | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalHistorical main catalogue: "Musical instrument. a kind of bow with gourd resonance. Baton a strong blade of grass. [Sketch] Shabruma people." A slender tree branch, reduced to a plano-convex shape at one end and strongly bent at the other. The connection of the string of twisted animal tissue [is] secured to a carved peg-shaped extension or after passing through a notch by means of multiple rod wrappings. [A stretched calabash resonator open at the bottom [also exists]. [A] crossbar connection of the loop surrounding the bar and strings [is] inside the resonator. The baton is missing. "Baton a strong blade of grass." "Called by the people of Mahomakiro, brother of Shabruma, badly called Shabruma people." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)
Cataloguing data
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 12 cm
Length: cm
Diameter: 8 cm
Weight: 0,1 kg
Provenance and sources
Production
Collecting
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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