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Thumb piano

Object number81.17.1261
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., pp. 118-9, reproduced pl. 154 (as "mbira").
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions5 13/16 x 2 3/16 in. (14.7 x 5.5 cm) L.: 10 7/16 in.
MediumWood and metal
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.807
Thumb piano
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.849
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.850
Thumb piano
Object number: 81.17.1260
Thumb piano
Object number: 81.17.1262
Drum
Object number: 81.17.330