Tortoise Shell Plucked String Instrument: Museum Object and Cultural History
Tortoise Shell Plucked String Instrument: Object Name: plucked string instrument. Physical Description: tortoise shell (overall material). Physical Description: wood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This plucked string instrument was made by an unknown maker, provenance and date unknown. It is a plucked string instrument made of a tortoise shell, wood neck, animal skin top, and two strings. The accession paperwork identifies this instrument as a "primitive banjo."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: plucked string instrument
- Physical Description: tortoise shell (overall material)
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: animal skin (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 59.69 cm x 13.97 cm
- ID Number: MI.60.1383
- accession number: 227687
- catalog number: 60.1383
- Credit Line: Made available through the Cooper Union Museum
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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