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 Dhodro Banam
Central or eastern India (?)

Fig. 13: Dhodro Banam Central or eastern India (?):
H. 96 cm.
Private collection, California

This example is unusual in many respects. The instrument is large and the body is elaborately rendered in an abstract anthropomorphic form. The finial of the peg box is a strange two-headed figure.

detail

Detail

© Tribal Arts, 1997

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