M0017509EB: Pluriarc, or bow lute, Cameroon

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Bow lute, Begam tribe, Cameroon, West Africa

Photograph of the rear side of a pluriarc, also called a bow lute, a stringed musical instrument. From the Bagam, or Bamileke people, Cameroon. It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1927 and given accession number A60674. It was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. Related images: M0017509EA

August 1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A60674

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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