Short lute ·  Inde, Santal · ID: 3033792

Description

wood, dark brown encrusted patina, carved from one piece, the massive neck with block-shaped head piece crowned by three stylized figures, waisted corpus with a skin-covered (lizard) lower section, the upper part presumably once closed by a wooden cover, the skin fixed by small wooden plugs, which should have been used for fixing the strings as well, incised decor, slightly dam., minor missing parts (arm of one figure), cracks, on metal plate;
such lutes were used by the Santal, an ethnic group which mainly lives in the mountanious regions of the north indian states Bihar and Orissa. Similar lutes can be found with the tibeto-birmanic speaking people in the north of Nepal.

L’objet Short lute avec l’ID d’objet 3033792 a fait partie de l’enchère 71st tribal art auction en 24 novembre 2012 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 36.

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Littérature comparée

Brenner, Klaus-Peter, Erlesene Musikinstrumente, Göttingen 1989, p. 92 f.