Musical instrument

Museum number:
18-1660
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4655 (additional number, acc. number)
Accession number:
Acc.4655
Description:
Musical instrument, stringed; scroll and pegs (for two steel strings) at top; gourd sounding box with sounding holes at bottom, covered with python skin; tail piece at bottom. Said to be old by collector. Length 66.5 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.
Donor:
Wyn Sargent
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Brunai, Southeast Asia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Chordophones (stringed instruments)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
October 4, 1994
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 18-1660, described as Musical instrument, stringed; scroll and pegs (for two steel strings) at top; gourd sounding box with sounding holes at bottom, covered with python skin; tail piece at bottom. Said to be old by collector. Length 66.5 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 18-1660, described as Musical instrument, stringed; scroll and pegs (for two steel strings) at top; gourd sounding box with sounding holes at bottom, covered with python skin; tail piece at bottom. Said to be old by collector. Length 66.5 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.

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