Collector: Dorothy Shack / Function: 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Drum and stick, accession number 5-16842a,b, described as a) drum. wood hemisphere covered with 2 pieces of hide. the hide serving as drum head covered with brown hair. bottom hide, also partially covered with hair, is tightly cinched to drum head with hide thongs. wood handle protrudes from side. hide thong handle. b) drumstick. wood with paddle cloth end.

Hearst Museum object titled Fiddle, accession number 5-16859, described as 1 stringed "fiddle"; hide covered sound box stretched over a diamond shaped wood frame, attached to a carved, wooden neck with 1 peg to support a single horsehair string of multiple strands. string sits 6cm above the neck and runs through a 'V' shaped wooden bridge; the end of the string is attached to twine which loops around a base peg.

Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 5-16861, described as 6-stringed harp (lyre). kerar (?). triangular wooden frame with wooden hide-covered bowl at 1 corner forming the sound box. 6 strings of twisted gut or hide. strings joined at bottom of sound box and are tied separately with pegs at top of frame. incised square motif on wood sound box.