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Senufo thumb-piano, soundboard view

         
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Senufo thumb-piano, soundboard view
Forani Collection
Cat. No: CH72-637

Real carapace, probably of a West African Black forest turtle, Pelusios niger, used as the sounding-box of a mbira (thumb piano). Senufo people, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). Acquired: Brussels.


Photo: John Noone IMG_0849.jpg

        
         
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