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The body of the instrument is an elongated wooden bowl, rounded on the narrow sides towards the base, with a rectangular opening outline. A skin completely enveloping the resonator and the funnel-shaped spout extension carved on the front, bound together in several seams on the outside and underside. The neck is a slightly curved thin roundwood, somewhat flattened at the peg perforations. Grommet shaft shape. The pegs are missing. One of the five strings made of twisted animal tissue is completely preserved. Six perforations in the membrane and the tailpiece. In the front section of the top there is an additional rectangular opening in the side of the membrane. Where the neck joins the body, it is thickened by fabric wrappings. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 100,5 cm
Width: 11 cm
Height: 42,6 cm
Material/Technique
Skin , Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III A 4418

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late 19th century/early 20th century
    where
    Africa (North-East)
  • Collecting
    who
    Ismael Gentz (1862 - 1914) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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