Object Details
- Description
- This cigar box guitar was made by an unknown maker in North Carolina around 1875-1899. It is a four course (4x1) guitar made from a Morris & Son cigar box. Homemade instruments such as cigar box guitars and fiddles played an important part in jug bands and blues music in the late 19th century through the Great Depression.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Hallock
- 1875 - 1899
- ID Number
- MI.096844
- accession number
- 34639
- catalog number
- 96844
- Object Name
- guitar
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- gut (strings material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 55.88 cm x 19.05 cm x 12.065 cm
- place made
- United States: North Carolina
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Guitars
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Music
- Record ID
- nmah_605717
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-29aa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
