Stringed Musical Instrument with Bow, "Rebab"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Aug 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward H. Smith Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: Two stringed bowed lute with triangular body, rounded back, and wooden neck with a dark reddish-brown finish. The wooden sound box is covered on top with white untreated skin and on the bottom with a wine-red textile embellished with couched metallic threads. Parts of the neck are detachable. Broken strings. Wooden bow, broken at one end, with red cloth wrapped around the hair at both ends. Rebab, a generic term for bowed instruments from Muslim countries, is said to be derived from Persian "revave" meaning "sorrowful toned".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Java, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361230
label: USNM Number
content: E431895-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stringed Instrument/Instrument Bow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Instrument, Assembled
content: 116 cm
label: Width - Instrument
content: 19 cm
label: Height - Instrument
content: 8 cm
label: Length - Bow
content: 62 cm
label: Width - Bow
content: ca. 12 cm