Stringed Musical Instrument Item Number: K4.265 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Lyre-like instrument. Wood bowl sound chamber covered with snake or lizard skin. Triangular wood frame of two sticks flaring outward from the sound chamber with another stick across to connect them and across which, there are three strings are wound around along with goat hair and strings of multi-coloured beads. (Something loose is inside the sound chamber.)
Item History
- Made in Tanzania
- Owned by Basil G. Hamilton and Mary E. Crawford
- Owned by B.C. Provincial Museum before February 1954
- Received from B.C. Provincial Museum (Transferring institution) during February 1954
What
- Name
- Stringed Musical Instrument
- Identification Number
- K4.265
- Type of Item
- musical instrument
- Material
- goat skin, goat hair, metal ?, glass, snake skin and wood
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and tied
- Overall
- height 52.0 cm, width 57.0 cm, depth 8.7 cm
Who
- Culture
- East African
- Previous Owner
- Basil G. Hamilton, Mary E. Crawford and B.C. Provincial Museum
- Received from
- B.C. Provincial Museum (Transferring institution)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Tanzania
When
- Ownership Date
- before February 1954
- Acquisition Date
- during February 1954
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1856/0004