African Lyre
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Richard D. Mohun
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department Of State
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in Bull. 136, pl.32a., p.145 An eliptical shaped body with a rounded back, made from a block of wood. A piece of wood is placed along the major axis of the cavity, the piece of wood raising the center line of the belly higher than its sides. A piece of raw hide is cut to cover the back and the edges of the belly to conform to it, to which it is sewed. Two small round sound holes are made in the belly. The neck is a cylindrical stick s starting from the end of the body; four inches from the body it makes a sharp bend up at a right angle, the part between the bend and the body is covered with a portion of the skin forming the belly. The upright portion of the neck is fitted with five transverse tuning pegs. It has five strings of grass or vegetable fibre of graduated lengths, stretched parallel to each other from small holes, made in the belly and the stick under it, to the tuning pegs. see Kondi. loaned to NMAH-Life in America 10-29-84"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Soko
label: Culture
content: (Basoko)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029024
label: USNM Number
content: E174757-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lyre
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 10 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm