harp
- Museum number
- Af1954,+23.3811
- Description
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Harp made of wood with rectangular sound box held together with metal nails. Single round sound hole at lower end. Rectangular section cut from base of sound box into which neck of harp is inserted. Neck formed from five curved wood sticks bound together with lengths of cane arranged in bands. Cotton strings, now broken, tied to tips of four wood sticks (replacing original strings ?). Figure of bird carved from solid stands at top of sound box.
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 71.50 centimetres
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Width: 14.20 centimetres
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Depth: 25.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information derived from a) original Wellcome collection labels and b) worksheets, compiled by Ethnography Dept. staff, which are stored with Africa collections. Worksheet records provenance as 'Gaboon'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; one string missing, other four strings broken. Sound box is abraded.
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,+23.3811
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 53283 (Wellcome Collection Number)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 92438 (Wellcome Collection Number)