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Title
Musical instrument, India, ca. 1930
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1925/1935
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white lantern slide showing a home-made four-stringed musical instrument. The instrument could be a datara or a tanpura. The body is a wooden box, and strings are stretched across the body over amplifying holes to two necks. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS16-45.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78351
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS16-45.jpg
Subject
Music
Musical instruments
Stringed instruments
General views
Time Period
1925/1935
Place
Asia
Bihar
India
populated places
Source
CSCNWW33/OS16/45 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India uncaptioned slides (CSCNWW33/OS16)

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