6-stringed harp (lyre). kerar (?). triangular wooden frame with wooden hide-covered bowl at 1 corner forming the sound box. 6 strings of twisted gut or hide. strings joined at bottom of sound box and are tied separately with pegs at top of frame. incised square motif on wood sound box.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Amharic (?)
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Materials:
Hide (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lyres
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 22.5 centimeters, width 57 centimeters, and height 67 centimeters