Lot number 2662 - Auction 160
KONVOLUT VON FÜNF ETHNOGRAFISCHEN SAITENINSTRUMENTEN UND ZWEI BÖGEN

SET OF FIVE ETHNOGRAPHIC STRING INSTRUMENTS AND TWO BOWS The Balkans, the Himalayan region, and South Asia, 20th century Resonance boxes partially carved from a single block of wood, with skin-covered tops, wooden bridges, wooden pegs, and carved pegboxes. Length of instruments approx. 55 to 86 cm, bows approx. 41.5/53 cm. Gusle, Balkans, length approx. 86 cm, with a double goat's head as the end of the pegbox and a richly carved back of the body. Gusle, Balkans, length approx. 85 cm, with a carved horse's head and rich notched carving. Gusle, Balkans, length approx. 63 cm, with a horse's head and a relief-carved back. Dramyen (Himalayan plucked flute), Tibet/Nepal/Bhutan, length approx. 55 cm, richly carved with a skin-covered soundbox. Rubab, Afghanistan/Northern India, length approx. 55 cm, made of solid wood with a skin-covered lower body and an angled pegbox. Gusle bow, Balkans, length approx. 41.5 cm. Ethnographic bow, Balkans/Orient, length approx. 53 cm. Partially bumped and damg., partly incomplete. Provenance: Private collection, Hesse.