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Also referred to as cordophone or zither. See Maria Kecskési, Kunst aus dem Alten Afrika, Innsbruck, 1982, p.405, fig.438 for a closely related harp (h. 64 cm.) acquired from Eugen Hintz in 1917, now in the collection of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany, inv. No. 17-7-8; and Ezio Bassani, Scultura africana nei musei italiani, Bologna: Calderini, 1977:115, #545-546 for another closely related instrument in the Museo degli strumenti musicali, Rome, Italy, from the Gorga Collection and accession in 1929.