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Thumb piano

Object number81.17.788
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. 153 (as "mbira"). 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
Dimensions10 11/16 x 5 7/16 in. (27.1 x 13.8 cm)
MediumWood, metal, and twine
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.807
Thumb piano
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.849
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.850
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Object number: 81.17.1260
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Object number: 81.17.1262
Drum
Object number: 81.17.330