IDNO

P.74507.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a “Six stringed musical instrument, with handled boat-shaped wooden body, to which are attached some square pieces of thin iron as jingles. ‘Held in both hands and played with thumbs’ (Werner). Antonga Tribe (West of Lake Nyasa).” [from MAA Object record E.1896.21]

Place

C Africa; Malawi; West of Lake Nyasa

Cultural Affliation

Antonga

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

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]