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Kundi

Harp or kundi with wooden turtle-back body covered with leather, curved arm with carved head on headstock, five tuning-pegs and strings of vegetable fibre: Africa, North Africa, Sudan, Darfur

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    National Museums Scotland
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  • Place of production:
    Darfur, Sudan, North Africa, AFRICA
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  • Materials:Wood; Leather; Vegetable fibre; Turtle-shell
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  • Repository:National Museums Scotland
  • Measurements:Approximate Height 762; Approximate Length 965; Approximate Depth 330mm