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Musical instrument and bow; made of calabash; a) instrument with semicircular calabash body with reptile skin stretched across open side, round hole cut in skin; wooden neck inserted through body of calabash; horse hair string tied to either end of wooden neck and held in tension over skin with two pieces of bamboo wrapped in cotton thread; leather carrying strap; stone tied to bridge with twisted fibre string; b) bow made of piece of curved wood with horsehair strings held in place with leather straps.

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