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Endingdi; spike fiddle
Endingidi, spike fiddle. The front of the bamboo resonator is covered with a mammal skin soundtable that is nailed on with wooden pegs; the back is open. The neck is formed of a stick which bisects the resonator, emerging as a spike at the distal end. Single string, tuning peg and bridge missing. With outcurved bow strung with strands of sisal fibre. Made or collected in Arua.
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before 1954 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.313-71spike tube lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
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- Materials:resin, hide, wood, bamboo
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.313-71spike tube lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 430 mm x 130 mm x 125 mm