Stringed instrument and vibrator
Tools
- Museum number:
- 5-3021a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21053021a@2cb
- Accession number:
- Acc.1717
- Object count:
- 2
- Description:
- (a) Two stringed instrument. “Yom Shit.” Gourd sound box covered with thin rawhide, held in place by wooden pegs; strings of red leather. 26 inches length; 8 inches width. (b) vibrator sheet metal with rings of copper wire. It inserts into neck of instrument. See 5-2918 for bibliographic information. Also see 5-2976 for musical instrument reference.
- Donor:
- Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Du Village, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Af.; Nigeria; Birom; Du Village
- Culture or time period:
- Birom
- Collector:
- Leonard Plotnicov
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Chordophones (stringed instruments)
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1963
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Loans:
- S1967-1968 #58: KQED Television (November 28, 1967–November 30, 1967)