Zemanek-Münster

Bow harp

D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
sold EUR 1,900
Size
H: 48 cm
H: 18.9 inch

Description

wooden corpus, waisted in the middle, stretched with animal skin, two resonance holes, carved with a human head with typical skull deformation, originally five wooden pegs for attachment of the strings (three pegs and strings now missing), min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, base


Comparing literature

Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! California 1999, p. 297, ill. 72

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