NMM 1242.  Plucked lamellaphone (sansa), Loango people, Zaire, ca. 1900. Homoxylic wood resonator, hollowed out from the bottom, top end resembling the prow of a boat. Decorated with small, blue glass beads in a pattern of lozenges. Six (originally seven) iron lamellae (tongues). Overall length: 285 mm; width: 126 mm; depth: 61 mm.  Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.

The forged iron lamellae (right) are wedged against an upper bridge consisting of a folded sheet of metal and a stirrup-shaped lower bridge made of iron.