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Object Number 2004.24.32630
Display Title Five-stringed instrument
Descriptions
Object Description Five-stringed instrument, Sudan, Bar-el-Ghazel
Department Photographic
Date 1991
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Dyur
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sudan / Bahr al Ghazal
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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