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Composite harp; made of wood; triangular prism-shaped box made of pieces of wood tied together with fibre; eight pieces of cane tide to pointed edge of prism; fibre strings strung from ends of cane across rectangular base of prism; rectangular base carved with two rows of ridges; ends of prism painted with black paint; two black stripes painted across rectangular base.

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