Musical instrument

Museum number:
9-17901a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9-17901
Accession number:
Acc.4219
Object count:
2
Description:
Musical instrument, stringed (a) & bow (b); a) wood, bone, horn, rawhide & wire strings, elaborate geometric bone inlays cover entire instr; cup-like structure at bottom is black horn,also inlaid w/bone & has rawhide "drumhead";long neck of polished wood pierces cup;....
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Cambodia
Verbatim coll. place:
Cambodia;; Phnom Penh
Collection date:
1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
March 11, 1987
Context of use:
(descrip)...thin wire strings attached to bottom of neck,tieing on to 2 polished wood pegs piercing neck at 90 deg;top of neck curves slightly,is flat & rectangular,bottom round; (full descr.on card!)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Musical instrument, accession number 9-17901a,b, described as Musical instrument, stringed (a) & bow (b); a) wood, bone, horn, rawhide & wire strings, elaborate geometric bone inlays cover entire instr; cup-like structure at bottom is black horn,also inlaid w/bone & has rawhide "drumhead";long neck of polished wood pierces cup;....Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Musical instrument, accession number 9-17901a,b, described as Musical instrument, stringed (a) & bow (b); a) wood, bone, horn, rawhide & wire strings, elaborate geometric bone inlays cover entire instr; cup-like structure at bottom is black horn,also inlaid w/bone & has rawhide "drumhead";long neck of polished wood pierces cup;....

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