Lyre

93-9-27

From: Ghana

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 93-9-27
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Ghana
Culture Area West Africa
Date Made 1900-1971
Section African
Materials Gourd | Metal | Snakeskin | Wood | String
Technique Incised
Description

Snake skin streched over gourd (incised with black design) attached with sixteen metal nails. Stick with leather fringe at long end bisected with nail to keep it from sliding runs through gourd, short end wrapped w/ leather. Hair and leather wrapped around middle of stick. Nails and hair missing.

Credit Line Gift of Harvey and Doris Tower, 1993

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