About this minute
- Title
- Earth Bow (Ngbindi)
- Recordist
- Louis Sarno
- Performer
- Sumbu
- Contributor
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Location
- Central Africa Republic, Africa
- Collections
- Black History Month
- Related resource guides
- Compositions
Sumbu: Earth Bow
You heard the sound of an Earth Bow being played by a man called Sumbu, who lives with a tribe called the Bayaka in the Central African Republic. An Earth Bow is also known as ‘Ngbindi’. It is made by stretching a young, thin, bendy tree stem into an arc and stretching a string between…
