Gusle
date: label: Date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This gusle was made by an unknown maker in the Sandak region, Yugoslavia probably 19th century. It is made of a table of hide stretched over the “spoon” body and fastened with 31 hardwood pins, body, neck and head carved from a single piece of hardwood, the instrument not varnished.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This single-string fiddle bears a spoon-shaped body, neck and stylized animal head, all carved from one piece of hardwood. The geometric pattern cut into the neck and the pyramid-shaped finials on the two ears of the head on this instrument are features common to gusles from the mountainous Sandzak region of the Montenegro republic in the southwestern region of the former Yugoslavia.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Montenegro
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095243
label: catalog number
content: 95243
label: accession number
content: 26256
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gusle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: animal skin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: hair, horse (string material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 81.915 cm x 23.495 cm x 11.43 cm