Kpelle Finger Piano
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- Title Kpelle Finger Piano
- Category Utilitarian
- Medium Mixed Media
- Dimensions 11"h x 5"w x 2.5"d
- Year Completed Undated
- Notes The Kpelle People are the largest ethnic group in Liberia. For the Kpelle, music as performance involves the production of musical sound as part of artistic communication. Performance ideally involves a wide range of individual sounds. This finger piano was made by Moses Togba, a Kpelle man from Sinyee in Bong County Liberia. Stone, Ruth M. “Toward a Kpelle Conceptualization of Music Performance.” The Journal of American Folklore 94, no. 372 (1981): 188–206.
- Artist Moses Togba Liberian
- Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
- Location Library Art Storage G11
- Accession Number 2022.0186
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