lyre
- Museum number
- Af1939,09.10
- Description
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Bowl lyre consisting of a hemispherical gourd body, with poker-work decoration, covered with an antelope-skin membrane: from it issue two wooden arms connected by a cross bar to which five strings are attached: bead ornament.
- Dimensions
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Height: 36.50 centimetres
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Width: 22.30 centimetres
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Depth: 14.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by Capt.T.C.Speedy in Abyssinia during British Expedition, 1867-68.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1939,09.10