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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Jew's harp

Cut from one piece of bamboo cane as a frame with a springy tongue, which is made to vibrate by means of a string. With this simple instrument the oral cavity serves as a resonance chamber for modelling the tones.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
idiophones
Dimensions
7 x 190 x 59 mm
Material/Technique
Bamboo; fibre, vegetable;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25299
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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