1985.24.3

Collection type

Object

Description

Stringed musical instrument, harp, with 9 pegs - 10th peg is missing. Sound box covered with dark brown goat skin. [CAR 23/9/2008]

Geographical reference

South Sudan

Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan

Bahr el Jebel Western Equatoria Yei River District Panyume

Person

Field collector Lutaya Expedition

PRM source Lutaya Expedition

PRM source Barbara Elaine Harrell-Bond

Date / Period

Date made: 1984

Date collected

July to September 1984

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1985

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Goat Skin Animal, Material Nylon Synthetic, Process Carpentered, Process Covered

Dimensions

Length: max 180 mm body, Length: max 565 mm total, Depth: max 50 mm, Width: max 100 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1985.24.3

Research and responses

See RDF for notes and two black and white photographic prints, taken at Limbe Settlement showing a man and a boy playing the Adungu [?HLR].

A province known as 'Equatoria' or 'Al Istiwa'iyah' was in existance from some time in the 1940's to 1981, after which point it was divided into the districts of Eastern and Western Equatoria; in the 1990's these were subdivided further into the modern administrative districts of Western Equatoria, Bahr el Jebel, and Eastern Equatoria; Yei is in the Bahr el Jebel district, but the Yei River also runs through part of Western Equatoria. The precise location of the Panyume Refugee Settlement has still to be established.

Note that adungu is given elsewhere as an Acholi word for this instrument (see 1994.60.1-2, 1998.9.1) [RTS 16/1/2004].

Search terms: Music, Reproduction, Musical Instrument, Harp