This charango, made from wood and an armadillo shell, was created around 1910, in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Guitar
- Collection History
- Collected in 1924 by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954, explorer, author, and MAI field collector) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Ch'uta (Chuta)
- Collector
- A. Hyatt Verrill (Alpheus Hyatt Verrill), Non-Indian, 1871-1954
- Date created
- circa 1910
- Object Name
- Guitar
- Media/Materials
- Armadillo shell, wood, metal, shell/shells, twine/string
- Techniques
- Inlaid, glued, carved
- Dimensions
- 45 x 13 x 7 cm
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Indigenous Term
- charango
