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This is an example for an unusual type of bow-and-bridge harp lute, found along the coast of Sierra Leone. The sound box is carved from wood, with a projecting figurehead, rather than the usual calabash. The earliest examples were collected ...[more]

This is an example for an unusual type of bow-and-bridge harp lute, found along the coast of Sierra Leone. The sound box is carved from wood, with a projecting figurehead, rather than the usual calabash. The earliest examples were collected in the 1790s and are among the earliest collected wooden artefacts from sub-Saharan Africa.

This is an example for an unusual type of bow-and-bridge harp lute, found along the coast of Sierra Leone. The sound box is carved from wood, with a projecting figurehead, rather than the usual calabash. The earliest examples were collected in the 1790s and are among the earliest collected wooden artefacts from sub-Saharan Africa. [less]