Title: Rooria?
Object type: Rooria?
Date: 19th century
Culture: Melanesian (New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea)
Medium: Bamboo, fiber, shell
Dimensions: Frame:  L. 23.4 cm (9-3/16 in.) W. 2.8--0.2 cm;  Th. .9--.1 cm
Tongue:  L. 17 cm (6-11/16 in.) W. +/- .7--.1 cm; Th. .2--.08 cm
Classification: Idiophone-Plucked / Depressed
Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Geography:   New Ireland Province  Papua New Guinea Bismarck Archipelago     
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY