Instrument and bow
- Museum number:
- 9-17181a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210917181a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 56ab (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3934
- Description:
- String instrument (musical) & bow. Long hollow cylinder. Finger board is formed by pegs held in place by pitch. 2 pegs (each with one pointed end) run through the middle of cylinder near top. Gourd is attached to bottom of cylinder by multicolored (faded) striped cott
- Donor:
- Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
- Collection place:
- Cambodia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Cambodia
- Culture or time period:
- Cambodian
- Collection date:
- 1954-1959
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Chordophones (stringed instruments)
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- April 1, 1984
- Context of use:
- (descrip) 1 broken wire,1 taut & in place.Bow is slightly bent, smoothed rod (dark wood),flattened in middle.Cylinder L. 112.5 cm, Bow L. 84 cm. Gourd is cracked.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
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