1886.1.628

Collection type

Object

Description

Pluriarc, comprising the hollow box resonator only.

Long description

Pluriarc, comprising the hollow resonator only. The resonator is a carved wooden box with four sides, with the top nailed on. This has six small perforations for the strings. There is a square hole at one end. The sides are carved with large circular designs.

Geographical reference

Gabon

Africa > Central Africa > Gabon

Person

Field collector HMS Baracouta

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1878

Date collected

By 1878

Acquisition information

Transferred: 28/09/1885

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Iron Metal, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Carpentered, Process Nailed, Process Covered, Process Perforated

Dimensions

Length x Width x Height 242 x 108 x 128 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.628 Accession number: 1886.1.587 Other numbers: 136 587

Research and responses

* There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly) as in this case. [AP 16/7/99]

Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Pluriarc