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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Zigua
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 38,4 x 19,6 cm (gesamt)
Länge: 19,5 cm (Streichbogenstange)
Höhe: 15,4 cm (Korpus, Durchmesser: 5,5/10,3 cm.)
Länge x Durchmesser: 1,5 x 1,2 cm (Steg)
Material/Technique
Wood, Leather , Plant material
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 18 a,b

Provenance and sources

where
Tanzania [Land]
who
Zigua

who
Thomas Maler - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1972

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