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Description: | A zither or psaltery, played to accompany singing and considered by many to be the national instrument of Ukraine. This example was presented to the Horniman Museum by the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, based in Notting Hill, London. It was made by the Ukrainian Michael Teluk in Reading in 1945. This was one of the most tragic years in Cossack history, when thousands lost their lives at the end of World War II.
Teluk created the bandura with a double fingerboard and pegbox. It is decorated with symbols of Cossack and Ukrainian culture, such as the trifolium oak leaves and the figure of Cossack Mamay, a Ukrainian hero, painted on the soundboard; also the carved wooden finial of a Cossack head. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | Communities | Temporal: | 1945 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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