Bow For The Sarangi
name: label: Collector
content: Rajah Sourindro M. Tagore
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TO ACCOMPANY THE SARANGI. STICK OF PALM WOOD COVERED WITH VELVET; HAIR FROM TAIL OF WHITE HORSE. "THE HINDUS CLAIM TO HAVE INVENTED THE VIOLIN BOW. THEY MAINTAIN THAT THE RAVANASTRON, ONE OF THEIR OLD INSTRUMENTS, PLAYED WITH THE BOW, WAS INVENTED ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, BY RAVANON, A MIGHTY KING OF CEYLON. HOWEVER THIS MAY BE, THERE IS A GREAT PROBABILITY THAT THE FIDDLE-BOW ORIGINATED IN HINDUSTAN; FOR, SANSKRIT SCHOLARS INFORM US THAT THERE ARE NAMES FOR IT IN WORKS WHICH CANNOT BE LESS THAN FROM 1500 TO 2000 YEARS OLD. (ENGLE, DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, P. 56.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bengal, India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bengali
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E54073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fiddle Bow