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musical instrument

Long-necked musical instrument, with vertically cut gourd resonator and flat mahogany (?) neck; two wood tuning pegs along front of neck, and three to one side; remains of brass wire strings wound around two of these. Twisted vegetable fibre tied around neck in ten sections. Drilled three-hole pattern to top of resonator.

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