Side view (left) | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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(NGOMBI. Harp with ten strings (GINGI) soundboard MGUGA cahnförmig ........) "Harp like IIIC29971, only at the end of the soundbox a double head....." Colour: brown, yellow with a small bag of strings The long wooden body, which is rounded towards the back and the back, and the base of the widely protruding double head sculpture carved on the front are entirely wrapped in a piece of antelope skin, which is sewn together on the underside and front and has only been partially dehaired. The neck is a round wooden stick bent almost vertically upwards, tied to the frontal projection with leather straps and inserted into the wall. Ten long, thin wooden flank pegs. The plant string material is only fragmentary (since replaced). Two round membrane openings in a diagonal arrangement. A small, carved, cylindrical wooden peg on the back of the body. A decorative nail on the lower of the two carved heads. Harp with ten strings gingi, soundboard mguga cog-shaped, covered with antelope skin ndala,.... The strings are apparently made from the stems of a climbing plant and are partly single, partly twisted together from two; one end is attached to pegs fanse .... Village Boganga." Baumann, H.: African arts and crafts. In: Bossert, H. Th.: Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes, vol. 2, Berlin 1929, p. 89, fig. 6. Krieger, Kurt: Westafrikanische Plastik, vol. 3, Berlin 1969, p. 43 and fig. 121 (= Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 18, Abt. Afrika V). from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)
