Harp

Description

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

Museum reference

A.1905.84

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Harp

Production information

Unknown
Darfur, Sudan, Northern Africa

Materials

Wood, Leather, Vegetable fibre, Turtle-shell

Physical description

Wooden turtle-back body covered with leather; strings of vegetable fibre

Exhibitions

• Performance and Lives (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Man and Music (16 Aug 1983 - 15 Jan 1984)
  Royal Scottish Museum

On display

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