Wooden sansa with 12 metal keys, incised geometric decoration and string on back
Item
Title
Wooden sansa with 12 metal keys, incised geometric decoration and string on back
Creator
Creator Unrecorded
Subject
Music
Description
Sansa or thumb piano in the form of a rectangular wooden board with raised edges. It has 12 metal keys or tines, set on a raised wooden box and attached to the board with metal wire. The board is decorated with incised patterns. On the front below the tines is an etched block of eight squares with crosses in their centres, and a line of six circles on the bottom edge. On the back there are rows of circles at the top and bottom, and a square cross, with a circle at the end of each arm, in the centre. There is a short plant fibre string on the back threaded through two holes. At the bottom there is a thick metal wire similar to a large staple with three cylindrical metal beads threaded on it.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
c.1930
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Wood; Plant
Identifier
ETH.ANG3.528
A37/528
Source
Space/Place
Angola
Africa
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust