Musical instrument

Museum number:
18-1661
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4655 (additional number, acc. number)
Accession number:
Acc.4655
Description:
Musical instrument, stringed; paddle shaped pegs atop elongated neck; gourd sounding box, covered with python skin, with sounding holes at bottom, and incised zigzag design at rim; two steel strings attached to nail at top of tail piece. Said by collector to be old. Length 75.8 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.
Donor:
Wyn Sargent
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
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 18-1661, described as Musical instrument, stringed; paddle shaped pegs atop elongated neck; gourd sounding box, covered with python skin, with sounding holes at bottom, and incised zigzag design at rim; two steel strings attached to nail at top of tail piece. Said by collector to be old. Length 75.8 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 18-1661, described as Musical instrument, stringed; paddle shaped pegs atop elongated neck; gourd sounding box, covered with python skin, with sounding holes at bottom, and incised zigzag design at rim; two steel strings attached to nail at top of tail piece. Said by collector to be old. Length 75.8 cm. Diameter (gourd) 15.0 cm.

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