Fiddle
- Museum number:
- 5-16859
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016859
- Alternate number:
- 62 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4729
- Description:
- 1 stringed "fiddle"; hide covered sound box stretched over a diamond shaped wood frame, attached to a carved, wooden neck with 1 peg to support a single horsehair string of multiple strands. string sits 6cm above the neck and runs through a 'V' shaped wooden bridge; the end of the string is attached to twine which loops around a base peg.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Shack
- Collection place:
- Eastern Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- East Africa, Ethiopia, Amharic attrib.
- Collector:
- Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
- Materials:
- Hide (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Fiddles
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- May 22, 2002
- Context of use:
- music
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 23.7 centimeters, length 78 centimeters, and height 23.8 centimeters
- Images: