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Lyre

Uganda Kissar

Uganda Region
Uganda Region

Snake Skin with Wildebeest hair, wood, fiber
Collected 1904 by Carl Akeley (Smithsonian Curator)

Height: 26 inches
Chordophone - Lyre - Plucked

Uganda "Kissar" Snake Skin with Wildebeest Hair - From the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Natural History: The Personal Collection of Carl Akeley-Museum Inventory: # E 236 - Collected in 1904.

 

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Catalog#: AF-CHLR-1-74