Spiked Fiddle
Native Name:
Kemangeh (uncertain)
Object Number:
L-222-51
Current Location:
Collections storage
Provenience:
Soviet Georgia
Tiflis
Section:
Near Eastern
Materials:
Wood
Hide
Iron
Mother-of-Pearl
Description:
Kemange? spiked fiddle with iron peg, 3 lateral pegs, membrane sounding board, body and neck heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. body retains the old coconut form
Credit Line:
Loaned by the Franklin Institute Science Museum
Other Number:
| C-244 | - | Seder Number |
| 31 | - | Franklin Institute Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions:
44 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom ( Dec 2000 - 2001)
Four Thousand Years of Music (18 May 1950 - Apr 1958)
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