Kora
Object type: Kora
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: Mandinka people, Senegambia
Artist: Mamadou Kouyaté (d. 1991)  (bridge by Djimo Kouyaté)
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: Mandinka people
Date: ca. 1960
Medium: Gourd, goat skin, antelope-hide, ebony, metal, wood
Dimensions: 45 9/16 × 20 11/16 × 17 in. (115.8 × 52.5 × 43.2 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Harp
Geography:     Senegal  
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1975
Accession year: 1975