valiha

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valiha

Eleven strips of string detached from the epidermis between the two pierced bamboo nodes. Under each string two bars of partly different heights (pieces of bark from a palm leaf stalk). One of the twenty-two bars is missing. Where the strings have grown together with the epidermis, the tube is wrapped several times with a string of plant material. In one transnodium [there is] a round, burnt-in perforation. "Hova in Majunga. West Madagascar." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix object catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Hova
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 70 cm
Diameter: 48 cm
Length: 47,5 cm
Length: 61 cm
Material/Technique
Bamboo
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 4255

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    West Madagascar
    who
    Hova (Merina)
    Hova
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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