Object Number | 8759 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Fang |
Provenience | Gabon |
Culture Area | Central Africa |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood | Skin | Fiber |
Description | Wood trough-shaped body with carved head at end with arms. Wooden arm with 9 holes for pegs. Body covered with gazelle skin with some hair remaining on. Skin laced together at bottom of body. Strings originally of serial-orchid rootlets (none with instrument). See AF254. Poor condition. Arm loose, skin split, 8 or 9 pegs missing. Strings missing |
Height | 9 cm |
Length | 85 cm |
Width | 12 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Rev. Dr. Robert Hamill Nassau, 1891 |
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