Arpa
Yoruba · Nigeria
Reference: CORD-9
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- Height
- 670 cm
- Material
- Wood, rope, snake skin and pigments.
Five-string harp whose resonance box is covered in snakeskin. From a small village in Nigeria south of Kano. On the resonance box a female character of…
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Full original description
Five-string harp whose resonance box is covered in snakeskin. From a small village in Nigeria south of Kano. On the resonance box a female character of high rank, for his headdress and his scarifications, appears with his hands in his belly and seems to be listening to the melodies of the griot. Its elaborate hairstyle has three braids, two sides forming arches and one that overmounts the head to bend behind the back of the neck. Brown patina.
Further technical information
- Width
- 16.50 cm
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX
- Recorded weight
- 650 g
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Nigeria. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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