Stringed Instrument

50-49-1562

From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 50-49-1562
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Apayao
Provenience Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Locus Apayao
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Peel
Description

One longitudinal half of a bamboo internode. hree strings, close together, raised from the epidermis with wooden wedges. Strings lashed to body with coarse fiber at origin points outside of each wedge "bridge."

Length 38.6 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950
Other Number 173 - Other Number

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