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Musical stringed-instrument; wooden box; two long sides, with the one at the top shorter than the one at the bottom; short sides meet the top edge at an angle; multiple sound holes; strings are missing;
dulcimers
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
iron (metal)
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
string (fiber product)
scrolls (motifs)
stars
sunbursts
Pine
Wood
String
Iron
Carved
Painted
Nailed
Star
Sunburst
Scroll
Dulcimer
On the remains of a jelly label on the bottom underside in pen reads: Loaned by (the rest is missing or illegible).
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
34 x 11 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1641
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