M0018904EA: Tambura made of wood, hide and gut string

Photograph of a tambura with a hide sound box and six gut strings attached to a triangular wooden frame decorated with beads and velvet bands. A horn plectrum is attached to a leather thong. Acquired in Cairo and given accession number A70000 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. It was transferred to the Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. Related images: M0018904EB

December 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A70000

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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