The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Dyak Fiddle

Dyak Fiddle

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Dyak Fiddle

Date:: late 19th century
Geography:: Borneo
Medium:: Coconut, wood, snakeskin, rattan
Dimensions:: L. 80 cm (31-1/2 in.), Diam. of body 14 cm(5-1/2 in.); Bow 71.1 cm (28 in.); (in pencil, "L.C. says, 'L. 31-1/2, Diam. 5 in.)
Classification:: Chordophone
Credit Line:: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number:: 89.4.814

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References

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Oceanica and America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1913, vol. II, pg. 17, ill.
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What
Leather (5,761)

Musical instruments (5,241)

Chordophones (1,444)

Cane (272)

Coconut (85)

Rattan (85)

Snakeskin (62)
Where
Asia (68,071)

Borneo (164)
In the Museum
Musical Instruments (5,221)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Southeast Asia, 1800–1900 A.D.

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