Zither
- Museum number:
- 10-3462
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21100003462
- Accession number:
- Acc.4800
- Description:
- bamboo tube zither with ring of woven abacá (Manila hemp/banana) and glass trade beads: padang Tagabawa Bagobo, c.1940 - 1970
- Donor:
- Estate of Kenneth W. Payne, Kenneth W. Payne, and Peter Goldblum
- Collection place:
- Mindanao Island, Mindanao island group, Philippines
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Tagabawa Bagobo, S.E. Mindanao, Philippinjes
- Culture or time period:
- Bagobo
- Collector:
- Kenneth W. Payne
- Materials:
- Banana fiber (manila hemp is a type of buff-colored fiber obtained from musa textilis, a relative of edible bananas, which is also called manila hemp as well as abacá.) and Glass (material) (beads)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Zithers
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Production date:
- ca. 1940-1970
- Accession date:
- November 15, 2016
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- whole— length 20.25 inches, measured by appraisers— length 20.25 inches, measured by appraisers— diameter 3 inches, whole— depth 2.75 inches, and whole— width 3 inches
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