

Kamanja aguz. A stick fiddle. The resonator consists of a coconut shell, with the front cut off and covered with a membrane stuck to the shell. Holes are drilled into the back. Through this passes an iron spike, which acts as a support at the lower end, and is driven into the neck at the upper end. The neck consists of a cylindrical wooden collar, decorated with bone inlaid in a pattern of spiral lines, notched squares and quatrefoils. The peg box is a cylinder of wood with slot hollowed out of it, fitted with two mushroom-shaped pegs. The instrument terminated with a turned finial. The strings consist of a number of strands of horsehair, bound round the pegs and attached to an iron hook that passes through the spike just below the resonator. A piece of tape is tied around the upper part of the neck to act as a nut. Flat bridge - a drone instrument. Bow: Heavy stick with a slight outward curve and shaped to an octagonal section at the point. Arched blocks of wood act as frog, the hair is secured by copper(?) ferrules at the ends. Coloured with red pigment applied after the hair was attached.