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Thumb piano
Thumb piano

Thumb piano

Maker Congolese
Object number81.17.849
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. 152 (as "mbira").
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions3 9/16 x 1 1/4 in. (9 x 3.2 cm) L.: 5 3/4 in.
MediumWood and metal