Wooden guitar with animal skin and gut. [RR 20/1/2020]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden guitar with animal skin and gut. [RR 20/1/2020]
Long description: Guitar, gimbry. Heavy resonator carved from one piece. Table of skin which is stitched at the back of the top only, otherwise it is glued into place. There are marks of cutting from the point at which it is cut into shape. 2 strings of gut. attached to the end of the fingerboard and to the two prongs which appear through a hole in the table. 2 turned pegs.
Geographical reference: Morocco
Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco; Mogador
Person: Field collector George William David Stark Forrest; PRM source George William David Stark Forrest
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Skin, Material Animal Gut, Process Carpentered, Process Covered, Process Glued
Dimensions: Length: max 680 mm, Width: max 125 mm, Height 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1913.33.1
Research and responses: It seems pretty clear that G.V. Forrest is George William David Stark Forrest, the explanation for the wrong initial is not forthcoming at the present time [AP 06/08/2009]

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