Bangwe
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
1949
Materials
Gut, Wood
Measurements
570 mm (Length)150 mm (W)
Place of origin
Rhodesia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303930
Summary
A board zither or bangwe (musical instrument) from Northern Rhodesia. The seven strings are plucked. Collected 1949. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.