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Chikara. Waisted wood instrument with membrane sounding surface. Squarish neck open in back and bottom of front. Four gut strings attach through the front of peg box to four large knobbed lateral pegs ( two in each side at diagonally opposite corners). Knobbed wooden ornament on top of box. Circular carved designs in each side of peg box and around top and bottom of body and across ides of neck, and around edges of pegbox. Box of same color wood with light hair braided at end attached to frog which is bound to a sitck at one end, and knotted through hole in stick at other end. Fair condition. Two pegs missing, all strings broken, membrane split. Bow in good condition, some hair missing.