Machete

'Back of a single piece of olivewood and sides of the same. Belly of two pieces of pine inlaid round edges and round the soundhole with various woods, including a type of rosewood. Neck of pine, stained black, with a rosewood fingerboard inlaid with various woods in a feather design, and with seventeen brass frets and a wooden nut. The figure-of-eight shaped head has four pegs for four single strings.' - Anthony Baines:Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 62.