African Lyre (Obah)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1874
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Ralph R. Gurley
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BODY TWO-THIRDS OF A SPHERICAL GOURD. OPEN AT ITS BOTTOM, PROJECTING FROM ITS TOP IN NEARLY A PERPENDICULAR POSITION IS A STICK OR ARM, H.19 IN. DIA. 3/4 IN.; AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ARM IS LASHED TO IT AND THE GOURD ANOTHER STICK L. 11 IN. WIDTH 7/8 IN. AND 5/8 IN. THICK. IT STANDS AT AN ACUTE ANGLE TO THE FIRST STICK, NEAR THE OUTER END OF EACH STICK ARE HOLES MADE FOR A WOODEN SPREADER, MISSING. IT PROBABLY HAD SEVEN STRINGS OF VEGETABLE FIBRE OF GRADUATED LENGTHS, RUNNING FROM THE UPRIGHT ARM TO THE INCLINED ARM, THE STRINGS PARALLEL TO THE SPREADER AND TO EACH OTHER. MENTIONED IN FRANCES DENSMORE, HANDBOOK TO THE COLLECTIONS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. (U.S.N.M. BULL.136,WASHINGTON, 1927), P. 75."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Liberia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kru
label: Culture
content: (Kroomen)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E14260-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Zither
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 48 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 1.91 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.223 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 1.587 cm