String instrument
- Museum number:
- 2-57692
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020057692
- Alternate number:
- 7-36 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Banjo-like single string musical instrument with soundbox. Single gut string. Carved conifer with finely pegged construction.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Alaska Commercial Company
- Collection date:
- 1867-1897
- Materials:
- Gut (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Banjos and Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 35.2 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-