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Jew’s harp
This instrument was collected in the field by Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton. It is a mouth-resonated, plucked idiophone made of a grain stalk with an idioglot lamella (i.e. lamella cut from same stalk material). The distal end of the stalk is closed with natural node.
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1930–7 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Namacunde (town), Cunene (province), Angola - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:121.21 Idioglot guimbardes
- Culture:Kwanyama
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:121.21 Idioglot guimbardes
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Length: 170mm