IDNO

P.74506.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a “One stringed musical instrument, the string is attached to a stout decorated reed. “One end (of string) is held between the teeth and made to vibrate with the finger” (Werner). Ntumbi, Angoniland 1894.” [from MAA Object record E.1896.20]

Place

C Africa; Malawi; Angoniland; Ntumbi

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

?Chapman, Henry Arburn (Esq.); Werner (Miss) Collection [Object Donor]

Date

?1905

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C461/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Publication: Chapman, Henry Arburn, 1904. A Handbook to the collection of antiquities and other objects exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2nd ed. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) viii, 79 p. : ill., plates, plans (fol.) ; 21 cm. [JD 1/4/2010]