| Object Number | 42-21-301 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Uganda |
| Culture Area | East Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Gourd | Snakeskin | Wood |
| Description | Gourd sound box, snakeskin cover. On covex side of gourd, a square of hide attached by twisted sinew to narrow band of hide to which snakeskin is sewed. Two upright wooden bars extending outward and upward to wooden cross-bar, from which the strings of thin twisted leather are stretched to cover wooden peg at base of sound box. Hide sling. |
| Height | 8.5 cm |
| Length | 60 cm |
| Width | 29 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Percy C. Madeira Jr., 1942 |
| Other Number | 296 - Collector Number | C-325 - Seder Number |
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