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1919.29.33

5-stringed lyre

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1919.29.33

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Collection type
Object
Description
5-stringed lyre
Person
Field collector Harry Hamilton Jackson
PRM source Harry Hamilton Jackson
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1919
Date collected
By 1919
Acquisition information
Donated: 1919
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Carpentered, Process Covered
Dimensions
Length x Width x Height 615 x 310 x 81 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1919.29.33
Research and responses

See the entry under 'kissar' in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, S. Sadie ed., 1984; and G.A. Plumley, El Tanbur: The Sudanese Lyre or the Nubian Kissar, 1976.

Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Lyre, Plectrum

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