Raft Zither
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1960's - Early 1970s
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Janet Stone
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Janet Stone
notes: label: Notes
content: TWENTY-ONE EQUAL LENGTHS OF BAMBOO LASHED TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE. STRIPS SLIT FROM THE BOTTOM SIDE OF THESE LENGTHS BUT NOT SEVERED AT EITHER END ARE LIFTED OVER TWO TRANSVERSELY PLACED BAMBOO RODS AND INTERWOVEN WITH FLAT LEAVES IN SUCH A WAY AS TO FORM A CLOSED SQUARE SOUNDING CHAMBER IN WHICH RATTLES ARE PLACED. ON TOP OF INSTRUMENT ARE 14 STRIPS MADE SIMILARLY TO THOSE ON THE UNDERSIDE, BOUND WITH VARIOUS THICKNESSES OF FIBER AT THEIR CENTER AND LIFTED ABOVE THE SOUNDING CHAMBER. REF: TREMEARNE, A.J.W. HAUSA SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS (LONDON: JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, LTD., 1913). P. 321.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hausa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361235
label: USNM Number
content: E423493-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Zither
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 40 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3 cm