Wooden violin with skin head and fibre strings

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Object Number 39-17-70/1423

Display Title Wooden violin with skin head and fibre strings

Descriptions

Inventory Description String instrument, bamboo handle,carved wooden pegs, semi-spherical coconut shell base, skin stretched across coconut shell, skin secured with braided plant fiber

Classification

String

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Besarese

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Indonesia / Western New Guinea / Irian Jaya

Additional Geographic Terms Kamwa island

Materials Bamboo , Skin , Plant fiber

Dimensions Overall: 85.5 × 15 × 6 cm (33 11/16 × 5 7/8 × 2 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 39-17-70/1423

Provenance

Collector Charis Denison Crockett (1938)

Seller Donated by Charis Denison Crockett (1939)

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