Sansa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Mar 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Heli Chatelain
label: Donor Name
content: Heli Chatelain
notes: 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: Notes
content: From cards: "Base a rectangular block of wood, hollowed out from one side and a cover neatly fitted to the opening. One end is cut down from the back side like a shovel, with a row of 11 small holes through the thinest part. An iron bridge E-shaped is lashed to the top in front and parallel to the row of small holes. Parallel to the bridge, but on the opposite side of the row of holes, is placed a strip of leather, across the bridge and leather are laid 11 iron tongues. Above the tongues and over the row of holes is laid a rider, a slender square rod of iron. A lashing of split rattan is passed over the rider between the tongues and through the holes beneath. Rider, tongues, bridge, and strip of leather are all firmly sewed to the base. Two of the tongues are strung each with a blue glass bead between the bridge and the rider, and 5 with two beads each in the same place. See 76.245. Illus. in Bulletin 136, USNM, Pl. 13-d, p.126."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026802
label: USNM Number
content: E166174-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Thumb Piano
physicalDescription: label: Length - Base
content: 16.5 cm
label: Width - Base
content: 8.573 cm
label: Height - Base
content: 2.857 cm
label: Minimum Length - Tongues
content: 8.9 cm
label: Maximum Length - Tongues
content: 11.4 cm