kininkira mbaya | Photographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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'kininkira' / 'mbaya'
a) A narrow, elongated board, arched towards the narrow sides with only slightly raised longitudinal edges. [It has four string guide slots. One end of the thick string is tied to a crosspiece under an outer slot, the other [is] wound from there several times towards the edge of the board. A centre rib left standing lengthways and interrupted by V-shaped incisions, towards which the bottom of the bowl slopes. Three iron pins hammered into one end of the string carrier and hung with perforated metal plates. A resonator is not preserved. A linear branding pattern [is] on the underside of the string carrier. "String (chord): ndi. Board: kitiramba. Iron ornamentation: manenge. Resonance: mpera. Incisions: maketa." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)
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Cultural attribution
Fipa
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 89 cm
Width: 9,5 cm
Width: 9,5 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Wood, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 6660 a,b
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