Object Number | A270 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ao |
Provenience | India | Merangkung |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Bamboo | Lizard Skin |
Description | L-string fiddle. Bamboo stick pierces tubular bamboo body which has lizard skin soundboard. Single string of twisted fibers or hair, tied to spike at end of body and attached to neck by wrapping it around notch at top. Poor condition. Wood body worm-eaten at back. Lizard skin broken. String detached. Bridge originally a bent twig - missing. |
Length | 62 cm |
Width | 15 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of William Henry Furness 3rd, Hiram M. Hiller, and Alfred Craven Harrison Jr., 1900 |
Other Number | C152 - Seder Number |
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