Photographer: Andreas Richter | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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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)
