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Gusle

Date1940-1960 ca.

Place MadeYugoslavia, Europe

Place MadeHerzegovina

Place MadeBosnia

Place MadeSerbia

Place MadeMacedonia

Serial No.none

SignednoneMarkingsBranded toward lower end of neck, just above resonating chamber: [Y]UGOSLAVIADescriptionBody: neck, back and teardrop-shaped resonator carved from single piece of wood, maple (monoxylic construction); low relief chip carving throughout
resonator: teardrop-shaped resonator; single soundhole in back; goatskin soundtable tacked to body with 30 wooden spikes; five small holes punched in soundtable between endpiece and bridge, forming five-hole “+” shape
Finial: hand-carved, wooden finial as stylized horse head; integral construction
Peg: hand-carved, wooden, posterior peg, carved with vertical lines bordered by a zigzag motif; housed in stylized, carved, wooden feline head, strings passing through cat’s mouth
Bridge: carved wooden bridge in form of stylized serpent, notch cut in upper edge where string rests
String: consists of 48 horse hairs, tied to peg and to a segment of vegetal twine secured around endpiece (part of single piece construction) in the form of an owl

Associated bow: single-piece construction with stylized serpent handle, with two irregularly shaped cut-outs and a protruding head, and convex stick; at this juncture, a small drilled hole (perpendicular to bow construction) through which an undecorated
DimensionsWidth of resonator: 146.05 mm (5.75 in)
Overall length: 552.45 mm (21.75 in)
String length (knot on vegetal twine to peg): 381 mm (15 in)
Length of bow: 320.68 mm (12.63 in)
Bow string length: 215.9 mm (8.5 in)
Length of bridge: 83 mm (3.27 in)
Distance between legs of inverted “v”: 43 mm (1.69 in)
Width of bridge: 9.5 mm (.37 in)
Height of bridge: 30 mm (1.18 in)
Height of notch (distance from base of bridge to lowest point of notch): 27 mm (1.06 in)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number04064

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