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Tubular lute with bow

The body is a wooden tube tapering towards the base. A mammal skin membrane fastened with wooden pegs trimmed back to wall level. The string support is a round wooden stick. A wooden peg with only a slightly widened peg head. A cylindrical wooden bridge. The string of twisted sisal fibre is attached to the peg with a loop. The bow is an evenly curved round stick with one notched and one slotted end. The sisal fibre covering is knotted into a loop in the notch and clamped in the slit before wrapping around the stick several times. A circumferential branding pattern on the outside of the body. The neck is wrapped with strips of very hairy fur. Produced for export. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Zigua
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 38,4 cm
Width: 19,6 cm
Length: 19,5 cm
Depth: 15,4 cm
Length: cm
Diameter: 1,2 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Leather , Plant material
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 18 a,b

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Tanzania
    who
    Zigua
  • Collecting
    who
    Thomas Maler - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1972
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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