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Typed, by the research team, as a plucked idiophone which is a general percussion instrument much like a jaw harp. Gourd back with heavy wood top and metal strips across the heavy wood. Grass string holds it together. Two holes in gourd bottom that…

Cloth wrapped wood with rounded/bent wood with grass string running from rounded area to cloth covered handle. Drumstick.

Dark colored hourglass drum with eggshell colored leather top and bottom. Many strings are only attached at one end.

Goblet shaped drum with orange and black wooden base. It has a light colored wood body with rope wrapped around the outside and a leather rope that blends with the wood.

Called a chordophone by the research team, which means stringed instrument. It has a long stick-like neck and two strings and tuning knobs. The body is a small gourd with a flat top and the bottom, has a flower-like design from carved holes.

A carved piece of wood with string that has with 6 black seed beads attached. It is a musical instrument used in ceremony.

It is a bowed lute. It has a long neck and the strings a tied on the far end. The body has legs, a leather top and hourglass shape carved out on one side.

Called a "multiple gourd" by the research team but resembles the description of a zither. Has a rounded gourd at one end with seven small parts holding strings and a rusting yellow and red metal piece.

A small maraca, light colored made from small gourd. There is a beaded covering which is also a percussive element that is titled 2011.1.49b.

The beaded covering for maraca 2011.1.49a. The beads are light blue, dark blue and yellow held together by a grass rope.