5-string banjo

Date1900 ca.

Place MadeUnited States, North America

Modelnone

Serial No.none

Signednone
MarkingsOn tailpiece: Elite
On skin belly: [ill] C. A. Powell / Dec. 10, 1905
DescriptionNeck: mahogany
Peghead: mahogany veneered with dark hardwood on face; integral with neck
Fingerboard: dark-stained hardwood; 17 nickel-silver frets; mother-of-pearl single dots inlaid behind 5th and 9th frets, double mother-of-pearl dots behind 7th and 12th frets
Heel cap: none
Head: calf skin; decal below bridge: scene of European peasant girl and boy in a meadow with flowering trees on the right
Tone ring: not visible
Rim: maple with nickel-plated brass exterior
Bracket hooks: 38 nickel-plated steel
Shoes: 38 nickel-plated brass
Tension hoop: nickel-plated brass
Dowel stick: mahogany
Nut: bone
Tuners: 4 nickel-plated brass tension pegs with ivory celluloid heads
Tailpiece: nickel-plated
Finish: clear
DimensionsTotal instrument length: 87.2cm (34 5/16”)
Fingerboard length: 44.7cm (17 19/32”)
Nut to bridge: 65.8cm (25 29/32”)
Nut to neck and body joint: 45cm (17 1/16”)
Belly width/diameter: 28cm (11”)
Fingerboard width at nut: 3.0cm (1 3/16”)
Fingerboard width at body joint: 4.7 cm (1 7/8”)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesJay Scott Odell, “Banjo,” New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, Vol. I, pp. 151-54.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number00599

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