Object Number | NA1703A |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Apache |
Provenience | North America |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Pigment | Hair |
Description | Cylindrical, wooden fiddle made of two pieces of wood joined with string. A tuning peg at one end has remnants of a string attached. The body is painted yellow with longitudinal bands of green and incised diamonds and zigzags painted green. Each end of the fiddle is also painted green. The sound hole is a slot cut the entire length of the body with two triangles cut out at each end and a small zigzag cut out in the center. |
Length | 34.5 cm |
Width | 13.3 cm |
Outside Diameter | 5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Sarah (William D.) Frishmuth, 1900 |
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