Ennanga

This instrument was collected in the field by either Miss A. M. Morris or Reverend H. K. Banks, around 1910. It is an arched harp made with a wooden bowl-shaped resonator entirely covered with animal skin stretched and secured with gut lacing. The soundtable has a small soundhole. The angled neck is made of wood and it rests on the bottom of the resonator bowl, piercing the soundtable. It has eight wooden tuning pegs and strings made of vegetable fibers (two pegs were reconstructed, one string is missing and two strings were stabilized with thread). The strings also pierce the soundtable and are attached to a strip of wood (stringholder) that passes along the length of the bowl and projects at each end. There are eight double-rings made of gut that are meant to be strategically placed below each peg so that the respective string can touch the ring and cause a buzzing sound (currently displaced).