Sanza
37-22-36
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-36 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Tin | Iron |
| Description | Seven metal keys fastened to rectangular board which has a triangular handle covered with tin cut into two "ears" at the base. Short pieces of wire are strung through holes in the edges of these latter. The board is attached to a rectangular tin box [resonator] which contains pebbles. The bondoma is played by plucking the ends of the keys near the handle. |
| Height | 9.6 cm |
| Length | 30 cm |
| Width | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 65 - Collector Number | I-463 - Seder Number |
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