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Portable Ring Xylophone (Kundung)
Nigeria, Cameroon, or Zaire (Central Africa), ca. 1935
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NMM 1247. Portable ring xylophone (kundung), Nigeria, Cameroon, or Zaire (central Africa), ca. 1935. Seven bars (keys) with animal horn resonators. Two Y-shaped wood beaters make it possible to play up to four bars at once. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.
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