Sansa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Mar 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Heli Chatelain
label: Donor Name
content: Heli Chatelain
notes: label: Notes
content: From cards: "Same as 166.174, except it has two tongues and strung with one blue glass bead. See 76.245 The base in its outline has the shape of the common flat iron, with the nose part on the back side sloping to the edge. The base is hollowed from one side and the opening closed with a thin piece of wood, neatly fitted. A piece of leather or skin is placed across the face near the rounded end of the base, and a bridge or wrought thin iron shaped like a wide staple is place on its edge parallel to the strip of skin with its legs crossing the strip of skin. Across the skin and bridge and between the legs of the bridge are placed 11 vibrating tongues, varying in length from 4 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches, their free ends projecting beyond the bridge from 2 to 11/16 of an inch. Across the tongues between the skin and the bridge, is laid a small iron rod, the rider, which is firmly lashed to the base with split rattan, passing over the rider between each of the tongues and through holes in the base. On the shanks of each of the tongues, between the bridge and rider, is strung a blue glass bead." "Illus. in Bulletin 136, USNM, Pl. 13-a, p. 126"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026802
label: USNM Number
content: E166175-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Thumb Piano
physicalDescription: label: Length - Base
content: 14.923 cm
label: Width - Base
content: 8.26 cm
label: Height - Base
content: 2.223 cm
label: Minimum Length - Tongues
content: 6.99 cm
label: Maximum Length - Tongues
content: 11.4 cm