8-String Harp W/ Head Finial
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. RECTANGULAR HARP HAS HOLLOWED WOODEN BODY, CAVITY COVERED W/ STRETCHED SKIN, NAILED TO SURFACE. HANDLE HAS CARVED HEAD FINIAL. OVAL HEAD HAS HIGH HAIR W/INCISED HAIR PATTERN. RECESSED FACE HAS HIGH RELIEF FEATURES W/ CURVED BROWS, NARROW ALMOND-SHAPED EYES,TRIANGULAR NOSE, AND CURVED MOUTH. AT BASE OF HANDLE IS INSERTED A CURVED SUPPORT RISING UPWARD. SUPPORT IS SECURED W/ PLANT FIBER STRIPS. PIERCING THE SIDES OF THIS SUPPORT ARE 8 WOODEN TUNING PEGS. 8 TAUT PLASTIC (?) STRINGS ARE TIED AROUND EACH PEG AND INSERTED INTO SKIN SURFACE. COTTON STRINGS ARE ALSO TIED AROUND PEGS. LABEL "CONGO BELGA S.313.77." CONDITION: LONG SPLIT ALONG ONE LENGTH OF WOODEN BODY. OTHER SHORT SIDE OF BODY IS ROUGH (INSECT INFESTATION ?) SKIN IS DRIED AND CURLED UP AT EDGES.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Gabon (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428142-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13 cm