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Description: | Purchased from E.B. Haddon, a noted lexicographer of East African languages. 'Enanga' is cited as the object name in the Horniman Museum register, but more recent sources give 'Ekidongo' as the name for the Nyoro harp.
Ennanga, arched harp. The resonator is a shallow wooden shell rather in the shape of a tortoise shell. The leather of the soundtable is stitched to a piece of leather covering the back of the instrument, with long stiches giving the appearance of lacing on a drum head. The curved neck enters the resonator cavity through the membrane. The nine pegs are in the shape of a stepped double cone (one broken). Each string is tied round the ridge on the peg, passes behind the neck and is hooked round the opposite end of the peg. Below each peg, except the one for the lowest note, is a ring made of a section of snake-tail. Four of these retain the slivers of wood that wedge them into position. At their lower ends, the strings pass through the membrane, where they are attached to a wooden stringholder that passes along the length of the bowl and projects at each end. A cord and cloth handle is attached to the back of the instrument. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | wood hide grass vegetable fibre arched harps Baganda textile ennangas | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12535 |
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