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Harp-Lute (Kori)
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Harp-Lute (Kori)

Object number81.17.289
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. 154-5, reproduced pl. 190 (as harp). Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Music for the Eyes: The Fine Art of African Musical Instruments, Sept. 15, 1999 - July 31, 2000.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions13 x 11 3/4 in. (33 x 29.9 cm) L.: 39 1/2 in.
MediumWood, leather, fur, metal, and beads
Whistle
Object number: 81.17.1630
Thumb piano
Object number: 81.17.1262
Female harp
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.882.1
Male harp
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.882.2
Harp
Object number: 81.17.851
Object number: 2001.153
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
late 19th-early 20th century
Object number: SC96.28
20th century
Object number: 81.17.940
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.807
Thumb piano
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.849
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.850