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The wooden body is pierced by a peg that tunes the single string. The instrument was made by a member of the Apache tribe at the Carlisle School for Indians in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Title: Tsii' Edo' Ai (Apache Fiddle)
Maker:
Lawrence Gotelay
Date: ca. 1887
Geography: Southwest, United States
Culture: Native American (Apache)
Medium: Wood; sinew, horsehair, polychrome
Dimensions: a) Body: L.15 1/2 × Diam. 3 in. (39.4 × 7.6 cm); b) bow: L. 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Zither-bowed
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.600a, b
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