|
Date: |
|
Description: | sounding box is circular wooden bowl, base has concentric grooved tooling marks, covered on top with hide with two slashes in it, laces round edge with thong which is looped round band of thong around underside of bowl, two wooden sticks lie across top of bowl, ends side by side in bowl and top ends joined by cross-piece of wood, five gut strings tied around pieces of cotton cloth on cross-piece,all loop through one piece of thong at bottom of instrument, above ends of side pieces, decorated with strings of cowrie-shells and blue glass beadstyped catalogue list quotes correspondence which notes that the 'kissar is widely used in East Africa - E.Sudan, Uganda etc. This may be Nubian' | Subjects: | Ethnography Music | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
harp
This instrument was purchased at…
-
-
-
|