Stringed Musical Instrument with Bow, "Rebab"

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

Donor Name
Edward H. Smith Jr.
Two stringed bowed lute with triangular body, rounded back, and wooden neck with a dark reddish-brown finish. The wooden sound box is covered on top with white untreated skin and on the bottom with a wine-red textile embellished with couched metallic threads. Parts of the neck are detachable. Broken strings. Wooden bow, broken at one end, with red cloth wrapped around the hair at both ends. Rebab, a generic term for bowed instruments from Muslim countries, is said to be derived from Persian "revave" meaning "sorrowful toned".
Record Last Modified
21 Dec 2018
Specimen Count
5
Accession Date
10 Aug 1989
Accession Number
361230
USNM Number
E431895-0
Object Type
Stringed Instrument/Instrument Bow
Length - Instrument, Assembled
116 cm
Width - Instrument
19 cm
Height - Instrument
8 cm
Length - Bow
62 cm
Width - Bow
ca. 12 cm
Place
Java, Indonesia
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Topic
Ethnology
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_8549851
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b123ff04-3076-4013-9122-a5c62dd35215
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