Instrument

2010-10-6

From: Madagascar

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2010-10-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Madagascar
Section African
Materials Bamboo | Fiber
Description

Valiha. Long bamboo cylinder with fiber bands around either end. Body has long vertical slits raised by small pieces of wood (frets). Hole on either end, hollow. Incised geometric pattern on either end.

Length 62.5 cm
Outside Diameter 6.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010
Other Number 1993.X.72 - Other Number | 18046 - Other Number

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