Lute

Description

Lute or gurmi with skin covered spherical calabash body with headstock wrapped in snake-skin, long wooden neck and two natural fibre strings: Africa, West Africa, Northern Nigeria, Katsina, Hausa People

Museum reference

A.1938.724

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Lute

Production information

Unknown
Katsina State, Nigeria, Western Africa

Style / Culture

Hausa

Materials

Wood, Wood, Snakeskin, Vegetable fibre

Physical description

Calabash, wood and snake-skin

Exhibitions

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

On display

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