Lyre
- Museum number:
- 5-6753
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050006753
- Accession number:
- Acc.2307
- Description:
- Bow-harp; rectangular wood box; top covered with reptile skin; 2 sound holes cat in top; strips of fur nailed along top and bottom edges; curved wood neck with 5 tuning pegs; 5 wire strings; entire box covered with burned designs; l. 44 cm; w. 18.5 cm; h. 33.5 cm (2nd peg from bottom broken)
- Donor:
- Mary Jean Aerni and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Bwamba, Toro, Uganda
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Uganda; Toro; Bwamba; Mbuti pygmies (Murdock 6:4)
- Culture or time period:
- Mbuti
- Collector:
- Mary Jean Aerni
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Lyres
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1967
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Loans:
- S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975) and S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975)
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