Lyre

Museum number:
5-2420
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050002420
Accession number:
Acc.1529
Object count:
1
Description:
Bowl-lyre; 8 strings; snake-skin head laced to leather patch on back of resonator bowl; 2 arms and yoke; ca 22 inches l; bowl: 11.75 inches x 9.5 inches.
Donor:
Frank R. Dodge
Collection place:
Uganda
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa; Uganda
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl lyres
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1970-1971 #3: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (July 9, 1970–July 9, 1970)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Lyre, accession number 5-2420, described as Bowl-lyre; 8 strings; snake-skin head laced to leather patch on back of resonator bowl; 2 arms and yoke; ca 22 inches l; bowl: 11.75 inches x 9.5 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lyre, accession number 5-2420, described as Bowl-lyre; 8 strings; snake-skin head laced to leather patch on back of resonator bowl; 2 arms and yoke; ca 22 inches l; bowl: 11.75 inches x 9.5 inches.

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