Bow harp ·  D. R. Congo, Bwaka · ID: 3036876

Description

wood, dark brown patina, corpus stretched with leather, two resonance holes, the neck carved with a human head, strings affixed by five wooden pegs, collection label “Village de Mingala District D’Alindao Haut Oubangu 1950” at the inside, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base

The object Bow harp with the object ID 3036876 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 446.

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