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Lyre

Uganda ndongo

Uganda
Uganda Region

Wood, cloth, leather, snakeskin
Collected in early 1920's

Height: 18 inches
Chordophone - Lyre - Plucked

This Uganda lyre, called a "nadongo," has a bowl-shaped wood resonator that is covered with snakeskin. It has one small circular sound hole on the right-side. There are eight leather strings that are bound to the crossbar by strips of cloth. Museum accessions report states it was collected by Quaker missionaries during the early 1920's.

 

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Catalog#: AF-CHLR-4-52