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)