Tonkori

Description

Tonkori or zither of blackened wood with long canoe-shaped body, short neck with five tuning pegs and carved extremity, and five strings: Sakhalin, Ainu

Museum reference

A.1900.48

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tonkori, Zither

Production information

Sakhalin, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe

Style / Culture

Ainu people, Japanese

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood, blackened

Exhibitions

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

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

References

Man and Music (Royal Scottish Museum, 1983), p. 26

On display

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