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The body is a cylindrical wooden body with a closed bottom surface and a pegged mammal skin membrane. A round wooden stick as a string carrier. The peg is missing. A string fragment made of twisted plant fibre. A carved wall reinforcement running halfway around the body cylinder is pierced at the side by a large rectangular opening. Four notches on the back of the neck (probably for attaching a tuning sling). The base curves upwards to form a tenon process carved in the centre. "Is struck close to the drum with a moistened reed. Mangandsche." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Manganja ("Mangandsche")
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 12 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Length: 55,8 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Leather , Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 3231

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Malawi
    Upper Shire (Shire)
    Lake Nyassa (Nyasa, Niasa)
    who
    Manganja ("Mangandsche")
  • Collecting
    who
    Rudolf Franke - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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