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Rectangular, closed box-shaped lamellaphone made of kapok wood (Ceiba pentandra Gaertn.). The resonator box is pinned with small wooden dowels. Eight lamellas made of rattan and laced with rattan as well. Bamboo dowels.
- Date:
second half of 19th century - Maker:
- Collection:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Inventory number:
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Calabar (Timezone: Africa/Lagos) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Culture:Efik
- Period:second half of 19th century
- Materials:
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- Decorative elements:Resonator box incised with geometrical forms by pyrography technique.
- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Repository:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Measurements:Height: 355mm. Width: 102mm. Depth (with lamellas): 55mm