About this minute

Title
Earth Bow (Ngbindi)
Recordist
Louis Sarno
Performer
Sumbu
Contributor
Pitt Rivers Museum
Location
Central Africa Republic, Africa
Collections
Collection 1
Related resource guides
Compositions , Earth bow , Human , Music , Percussion , Pitch

Collection 1 #9

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...
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