musical instrument;
musical bow
- Museum number
- Af1943,02.3.a-b
- Description
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Musical instrument and bow; made of calabash; a) instrument with semicircular calabash body with reptile skin stretched across open side, round hole cut in skin; wooden neck inserted through body of calabash; horse hair string tied to either end of wooden neck and held in tension over skin with two pieces of bamboo wrapped in cotton thread; leather carrying strap; stone tied to bridge with twisted fibre string; b) bow made of piece of curved wood with horsehair strings held in place with leather straps.
- Production date
- 1927-31 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 54 centimetres (a)
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Height: 48 centimetres (b)
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Width: 24 centimetres (a)
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Width: 5 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 11 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1943
- Acquisition notes
- Af1943,02.1 to 15 is a group of objects from Sierra Leone and Kenya given by Lady Byrne, almost certainly collected during the Governorship of those colonies by her husband, Sir Joseph Byrne (1874-1942). He was Governor of Sierra Leone 1927-1931 and of Kenya 1931-1936, and the works appear to have been newly made when acquired.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1943,02.3.a-b