Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label found tucked into the strings reads: 'Tsutzumi' [sic]
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label attached to the front of the storage box reads: '41.114 MODEL SET OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, JAPANESE. d.d. MISS ADA MOCATTA'.
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Tray containing a set of ivory and ?bamboo models of musical instruments. They comprise three drums of different types, one flute, two violin type instruments (one with bow) and one dulcimer type instrument
Event Date 1941
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
The tsuzumi is a small Japanese drum, shaped like an hourglass. It consists of a wooden body shaped like an hourglass, and it is taut, with two drum heads with cords that can be squeezed or released to increase or decrease the tension of the heads respectively. The body of the drum has been made of lacquered wood and the two ivory sections, meant to represent skins, are secured with red silk thread. Decorated with brown lacquered flowers on the ivory sections.
Event Date 18/12/2019
Author: ashleigh griffin