Stringed-Instrument (Valaza)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jun 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Willard P. Tisdel
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "[Where placed] With the open stringed instruments. [Remarks] Body carved from a block of wood of the conventional general shape. Abelly of thin wood, not quite covering the body, the opening at lower end, is lashed to body by six lashings of grass roots. A section of about 2/3 of the bottom is removed from the front and lacing a square shoulder across the bottom in this shoulder five holes are made. Five round sticks with pointed ends are driven into these holes. They are lashed together and binding the round sticks. The free ends of these sticks are up and above the belly, each of these sticks has a string made of doubled and twisted grass roots, one end fastened to a hole in the belly, the other to the stick. The Kissumba of Benguela, and the Wamba of Gabboom River are similar to this instrument, also the N. Sambia of Mayumba. Illus. in Bulletin 136, USNM, Pl. 41-f, p. 154." "See 95,224 N.M. Cat."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lower, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bayanzi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016168
label: USNM Number
content: E76250-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stringed Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 58 cm
label: Height
content: 28 cm
label: Length - Body
content: 23.812 cm
label: Width - Body
content: 16.5 cm
label: Height - Body
content: 11.4 cm