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Historical 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)

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Cultural attribution
Mafitti
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 95 cm
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 12 cm
Length: cm
Diameter: 8 cm
Weight: 0,1 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Pumpkin peel
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 4116
Related object(s)
Activity : Vorgang: E 1239/1895, Erwerbung: I/117/1895: III E 4093-4122, Ethnogr. (Deutsch-Ostafrika), Schenkung Leutnant Glauning -- Inhalt/Enthält: Sendung von Ethnographica. Berichtet von 4wöchiger Expedition und Erwerbungsumstände einiger Objekte.- Bitte um Übersendung von Doubletten an seinen Vater Hanns Glauning, da eigene Slg. beabsichtigt.- Brief des Vaters (1895.10.08.).- Objektliste. Briefe: 2 - Anlage 15 Fotos von der Expedition. Lt. Glauning nach Donde - Barikiwa/Wangindos, Mai 1895., 1895.07.10., Hans Glauning (29.1.1868 - 5.3.1908)
Vorgang: E 1239/1895, Erwerbung: I/117/1895: III E 4093-4122, Ethnogr. (Deutsch-Ostafrika), Schenkung Leutnant Glauning -- Inhalt/Enthält: Sendung von Ethnographica. Berichtet von 4wöchiger Expedition und Erwerbungsumstände einiger Objekte.- Bitte um Übersendung von Doubletten an seinen Vater Hanns Glauning, da eigene Slg. beabsichtigt.- Brief des Vaters (1895.10.08.).- Objektliste. Briefe: 2 - Anlage 15 Fotos von der Expedition. Lt. Glauning nach Donde - Barikiwa/Wangindos, Mai 1895., 1895.07.10., Hans Glauning (29.1.1868 - 5.3.1908)

Provenance and sources

where
Tanzania [Land/Region]
Kilwa [Bezirk]
who
Mafitti
who
Glauning, Hans - Collectors

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