sansa
- Museum number
- Af1954,+23.3842
- Description
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Rectangular box-type sansa made of wood held together with wood pegs. Sansa is hollow with single circular sound hole directly below tongues. Sansa has seven cane tongues secured by plaited cane band with two lateral wood rods above and below.
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.30 centimetres
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Width: 10.10 centimetres
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Depth: 7 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 note by Margaret Carey (Ethnography Dept. staff) records: 'Congo [West ?]'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,+23.3842
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 132150 (Wellcome Collection Number)