Thumb piano (kisanji)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Feb 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Heli Chatelain
label: Donor Name
content: Heli Chatelain
notes: label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "While children play the 24-key iron piano with their thumbs, metal rattles inside the instrument add to the sound."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 59 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Angola, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: M'Baka
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024070
label: USNM Number
content: E151735-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Thumb Piano