harp

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Object Type
Museum number: Af1945,06.10
Description: Register 1945: Composite harp, skin covered body into which run threee broken hair strings, with wooden arm at oblique angle to the body with carved human face in relief.
Production ethnic group
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Africa (East); Found/Acquired: Democratic Republic of Congo (?); Found/Acquired: Sudan (?)
Materials: wood; skin; hair
Dimensions: Height: 34 centimetres; Width: 39 centimetres; Depth: 14.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register 1945: Similar to Af1945,06.9, but smaller.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1945
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Af1945,06.10
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Mar 2017; Treatment

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