6-String Harp
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. HARP HAS WOODEN HANDLE, FRAME COVERED W/ STRETCHED SKIN, SEWN TOGETHER IN THE BACK. BODY OF HARP IS POINTED AT TOP, FLARES OUT, PINCHES IN, & FLARES OUT AGAIN BEFORE COMING TO A POINT AT THE BOTTOM. SURFACE HAS 2 LARGE HOLES AT UPPER RIGHT CORNER & LOWERLEFT CORNER. IN THE MIDDLE IS A ROW OF 6 SMALL HOLES, THE UPPERMOST HAS A BROKEN PLASTIC (?) STRING STILL ATTACHED. WOODEN HANDLE CURVES UPWARD, ENDING IN A ROUND FINIAL W/ NOTCHED GROOVES. A TINY FACE W/ INCISED FEATURES IS DISCERNABLE BELOW FINIAL. ALONG SIDE OF HANDLE IS ROW OF LARGE HOLES FOR TUNING PEGS. ONLY 2 WOODEN PEGS REMAIN. CONDITION: SCRATCHES. HANDLE IS MOVABLE. PEGS ARE LOOSE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mangbetu (not certain), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain), Africa
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: E428155-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 58.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 16 cm