Native Stringed Instrument:
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: "See 95,242 Spoon-shaped body with neck, carved from one piece of wood, hollowed out. Belly of thin skin stretched across the body and held by wooden pins; cavity in the neck covered with thin board of wood. Head is semi-circular with longitudinal dividing it into two parts, forming the peybex, which is fitted for 5 transverse tuning pegs (only 3 used). Three strings of vegetable fibre. Bridge is missing. Lent to NMAH-Life in America 4-25-85"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Dec 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lomami River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Lukele
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: E174756-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stringed Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 59.7 cm
label: Width
content: 10 cm
label: Height
content: 6.99 cm