Molo Musical Instrument
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content: The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body). The Molo is made of a wooden resonator and a wooden neck from which the strings are attached. The resonator is hollowed out from a solid piece of wood. There is a skin soundboard bound to the back of the resonator with leather thongs. The three strings are attached to the wooden neck of the instrument and are made of plaited fiber.
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content: Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, a linguist, collected this object from the Hausa people of Nigeria during a research trip to West Africa in 1951. Dr. Turner was interested in the tonalities of music and language and how they carry meaning within communities and cultures.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
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content: Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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content: Anacostia Community Museum
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content: 2003.0032.0361
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content: string instrument
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content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood, hide, sinew, leather strings
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content: 26 × 4 5/16 × 4 11/16 in. (66 × 10.9 × 11.9 cm)