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Start Over Object class Chordophones (stringed instruments)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 10-1949, described as Carved wood stringed instrument, shaped oblong box, dark paneled black with lime incised design, neck ends in carved openwork oblong, 48½ inches long
Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 10-1452, described as 6-stringed guitar; scroll decoration in pencil on back of neck; 23 3/4” 1.
Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, stringed, accession number 9-10949, described as Musical instrument, stringed; bamboo, coconut shell, wood, leather, horsehair, wire; 84 cm. length; 13 1/2 cm. width
Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, stringed, accession number 9-10947, described as Musical instrument, stringed; wood, leather, hair, wire, & cloth; Length 76 cm.; width 13.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Musician figurines, accession number 3-28528a-c, described as musicians, woven tule (reed); (a) drummer, length 43 cm; (b) trombone player, length 41 cm., (c) guitar player, length 43.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-160, described as Side A: Kagoro Music performed on dzundzom (cane zither). Songs: 1. “A Boy and his Girl Friend.” 2. “A Girl Who Conceived at Home.” 3. Instrumental, no singing. Side B: Kagoro Music played by John Aba Atuk on a dzundzom; singing done by several individuals. Songs: 1. Bakauye (A Bushman): the song is about a girl who marries a man from the bush, and it mocks the man who deviates from the patrilocal custom. 2. Wuta (bow): This song is sung for good hunters. 3. native name unkown. “If you Love a Friend You Love his Wife”. 4. Song title not mentioned. 5. Ali Thabta (Clean Ali). Song about “Clean Alie” who slept with someone’s wife, which is prohibited. The zither used by John Kalabs is a Birom version of the Kagoro dzundzom. it has six sets of string clusters instead of the Kagoro five. See the accession envelope for detailed notes by Leonard Plotnicov.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-164, described as Side A: Birom Music; Songs: (1) This song tells of ancestors and their deeds. Instruments: drum and voice. (2) A song for threshing acha. (3) Planting acha song. A ceremonial song for the ceremonial planting of the first acha. (4) Another acha threshing song. These songs are a medium of gossip and ridicule; a measure of social control. (5) Ancient song about a chit (spirit). Instruments: a dried cactus with notches cut into it and rubbed with a stick. Also used is the yom shit (a zither). (6) Song of a ceremony no longer performed, associated with the fertility of women and land and marriage. Side B: Igigwe music; The instruments are drums of various sizes, rattles of seeds in grass woven pods which are tied to the dancers legs, and one-note fifes, which give an organ-like sound because the players of one orchestra have fifes of different pitches.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-154, described as Tape. Tarahumara Fiddle Music.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-144, described as Tape. Jibaro music and speech: Fiddle; Male and female part-song; Male solo song; Heated male conversation; 2 part-songs, 2 females; Male solo song; Part-son, 3-5 females; Part-song, men and women.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-127, described as Tape. Jibaro music: general merry-making, drum, whistles, men and women singing; Loud and rapid speech with whistle; Women singers and drum, dance (?), music; 2 songs with Jew’s harp; songs with flute and whistle; Male singer solo; Women’s part-song; fiddle-like instrument solo; ditto.

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