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1905.68.8

Bow harp

1905.68.8

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bow harp
Cultural groups
Asante
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source William Ockelford Oldman
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1905
Date collected
By 1905
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1905
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Creeper Plant, Process Carpentered, Process Pegged, Process Covered, Process Burnt, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 620 mm Approx, Height: max 200 mm, Width: max 133 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1905.68.8
Associated publications
This is probably the object that is listed as item 46 in W.O. Oldman's Catalogue of European, Eastern & African Specimen's, March 1905, no. 24 (under the heading of 'Gaboon'): '46 (7527) Harp, body box shaped, top covd. skin, face roughly carved on projecting piece, fibre strings, broken. Dor. 8/6' [reprinted in W.O. Oldman, 1976, Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographic Specimens; RTS 1/3/2004).

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