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Lamellaphone
"Raft" lamellaphone integrally made of raffia palm material (Raphia sp.), where the body is made of three raffia palm petioles of triangular shape joined together raffia strip. There are currently seventeen lamellas cut from the hard outer skin of raffia secured by a double-pressure bar attached with raffia strip (some lamellas might be missing from the center). The backrest and the triangular-shaped bridge are also of raffia petiole.
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1850–1950 - Maker:
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Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum - Inventory number:
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Democratic Republic of Congo - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.11 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, without resonator
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.11 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, without resonator
- Repository:Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
- Measurements:Height: 325mm; Depth: 55mm