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Guitar

Native NameGunibri
Object Number:AF151
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Moorish
Provenience: Algeria
Culture Area: North Africa
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Tortoise Shell
Mother-of-Pearl
Parchment
Technique:Painted
Height: 7 cm
Length: 48 cm
Width: 11 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Sarah (William D.) Frishmuth, 1900
Other Number:846 - Other Number

Description

Gunibri. Tortoise shell sounding box. Two strings. Elaborately painted neck and top of sounding box. Yellow, white, red, green, gray, blue, golden yellow colored. Mother-of-pearl peg on tortoiseshell.

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