Object Details
- Donor Name
- Edward H. Smith Jr.
- A 4-stringed musical instrument of roughly hewn wood, believed to be a form of sitar. The finger board contains 15 metal frets made of wire. Strings are secured to 4 tunings pegs at one end and a nail at the other. Belly is all wood, with three tiny sound holes piercing the top, and a few parallel lines deeply incised on the back. Sitar invention credited to 13th century Delhi musician named Amir Khusru, deriving name from Persian "si" (three) and "tar" (string).
- Record Last Modified
- 10 Jun 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Date
- 10 Aug 1989
- Accession Number
- 361230
- USNM Number
- E431889-0
- Object Type
- Sitar
- Length
- ca. 128 cm
- Width
- 13.5 cm
- Height
- 14 cm
- Place
- North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Asia
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8549845
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39266c3d7-de9d-44bd-9725-14eaa53651ec
