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Closed "box" lamellaphone integrally made of raffia palm material (Raphia sp.). Body is made of three raffia palm petioles joined together with brown binder paste and transverse dowels, with two triangular openings. Eight lamellas cut from the hard outer skin of raffia. Backrest and triangular-shaped bridge are attached to the body with same binder paste. The pressure bar is attached with twine.
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1950–2002 - Maker:
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Inventory number:
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Cameroon - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Repository:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Measurements:Height: 265mm. Width: 150mm. Depth (at lamellas): 80mm