Bow-harp

Museum number:
5-6639
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
99 (field number)
Accession number:
Acc.2307
Description:
Stringed musical instrument (ennanga); half oval-shaped wood sound box covered with skin; 1 sound hole; lacquered wood tail piece insert; curved neck of lacquered wood with eight adjustable pegs and 8 banana leaf/lizard skin rings below pegs; eight strings.
Donor:
Mary Jean Aerni and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Uganda; Kampala (ba); Ganda (Murdock 45:9)
Culture or time period:
Ganda
Collector:
Mary Jean Aerni
Collection date:
December 1966
Materials:
Banana leaf, Skin (collagenous material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arched harps
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Used by men; played by individual perfoemer; used for music and dance accompaniment.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
sound box— length 28 centimeters, length 74 centimeters, width 19 centimeters, and height 8 centimeters
Loans:
S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975), S1977-1978 #2: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (July 27, 1977–October 6, 1977), S1977-1978 #66: Music Library (UC Berkeley)/John Emerson (May 23, 1978–May 24, 1978), and S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bow-harp, accession number 5-6639, described as Stringed musical instrument (ennanga); half oval-shaped wood sound box covered with skin; 1 sound hole; lacquered wood tail piece insert; curved neck of lacquered wood with eight adjustable pegs and 8 banana leaf/lizard skin rings below pegs; eight strings.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow-harp, accession number 5-6639, described as Stringed musical instrument (ennanga); half oval-shaped wood sound box covered with skin; 1 sound hole; lacquered wood tail piece insert; curved neck of lacquered wood with eight adjustable pegs and 8 banana leaf/lizard skin rings below pegs; eight strings.

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