Sitar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Aug 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward H. Smith Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: A 4-stringed musical instrument of roughly hewn wood, believed to be a form of sitar. The finger board contains 15 metal frets made of wire. Strings are secured to 4 tunings pegs at one end and a nail at the other. Belly is all wood, with three tiny sound holes piercing the top, and a few parallel lines deeply incised on the back. Sitar invention credited to 13th century Delhi musician named Amir Khusru, deriving name from Persian "si" (three) and "tar" (string).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361230
label: USNM Number
content: E431889-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sitar
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: ca. 128 cm
label: Width
content: 13.5 cm
label: Height
content: 14 cm