Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1920.329/Roscoe reads: 'Lute'
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Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1920.329/Roscoe: 'Lyre: boat-shaped wooden body with sounding board of stretched hide: curved wooden arm: six strings of twisted fibre (3 broken and 1 missing) tightened by wooden pegs inserted in holes through the curved arm.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Another catalogue card for 1920.329 reads: 'lute. Original card not found 7/11/94' and gives the provenance as "?Bajem; Sierra Leone". The source is unknown.
Event Date 07/11/1994
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Roscoe Collection catalogued in 1920 was given numbers 1920.1 - 1920.480. These are not Accession Register numbers, and conflict with numbers allocated to other artefacts accessioned in 1920. They do not appear under any other number in any Accession Register and the only documentation for them is their catalogue cards. In 2001 they were given the temporary suffix '/Roscoe' to distinguish them. This has now been replaced with the prefix 'ROS'.
Event Date 26/11/2021
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
A musical instrument possibly an angle harp. With a sub-oblong, wooden soundbox, covered in hide with one sound hole cut out. The two pieces of hide have been secured to the soundbox with twisted leather and string. An upward curving wooden neck with strings running at an oblique angle to the soundbox, played by plucking. Six tuning pegs, of which four have stings attached. One string is unsecured and one string is missing. Behind the neck is a tied loop possibly for suspension.
Event Date 10/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was found stored with objects from Sierra Leone. The geographical place of origin had been queried, with both Uganda and Sierra Leone having been listed. This object is identified by a label and its idno as being part of the Roscoe collection. According to museum records the Roscoe collection in its majority originated from Uganda. The object has thus been attributed to Uganda instead of Sierra Leone.

Event Date 10/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins