G2.1.25
Metadata
Title
G2.1.25
Collection
Digital George Stow
Medium
Pencil with ink inscription
Date
1905
Keyword
Marimba belonging to a northern Bakuena (1); framework suspended by the shoulders from a cord (a); slabs of wood struck with a stick (b); Calabashes suspended below ditto acting as sounding boards (c); musical instrument belonging to a Bakuena who came from near Lake Ngami (2); Calabash fastened with a thread of sinew (d); small disks of ostrich eggshell (e); two rows of steel springs firmly fastened inside the calabash and struck with the fingers the eggshell disks keeping up a jarring accompaniment (f); (Copied from the originals by G W Stow)
Notes
Cut edges, reinforced top L edge
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