sitar
Description: sitar, a large long neck fretted lute with double gourd resonator, main gourd body and second smaller rounded gourd near head and pegs, five large pegs to left hand side of player, two large pegs on top, eleven smaller pegs to left hand side of player, twenty metal frets on top of ivory guider, seven strings on top, ten strings on lower ivory guider near top of fingerboard, two ivory bridges near second gourd, two ivory fine tuning beads. Ivory border work - two ivory birds inlaid with red ink sketched outline, highly decorated ivory panel with black and red ink floral decoration, metal badge of neck between two large pegs (possible Shiva
Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1998.60.263Accession Date: 10 Oct 1998Description: sitar, a large long neck fretted lute with double gourd resonator, main gourd body and second smaller rounded gourd near head and pegs, five large pegs to left hand side of…