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Economic Botany Collections

The New Guinea Collection

Jew's harp

Jew's harp

Catalogue no:

76080

Botanical classification:

POACEAE Bambusa
GNETACEAE Gnetum gnemon
SCHIZAEACEAE Lygodium

Common name:

Bamboo

Collector:

Stefanie Klappa

Collection date:

1999

Geographical origin:

Krisa Village, Sandaun Province, northwest Papua New Guinea

 

This musical instrument, known as a Jew’s Harp, is made of bamboo and has a holding ribbon made from the inner bark of Gnetum gnemon. Fibres from a climbing fern, Lygodium spp., are wrapped around the end. The artefact was collected by Stefanie Klappa during her doctoral field research in Papua New Guinea investigating human-environment interaction in Krisa Village.

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