Pandharpuri Tambura

Indian

Not on view

This beautiful nineteenth-century tambura is one of the best examples to be preserved from that period in a museum. It has a gourd body attached to a wood neck and belly. It is decorated with bone and ivory inlay and paintings of mythological figures in the South Indian Mysore style.

#Tambura demonstration by Benjamin Stewart, 2013.

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Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian

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Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian
Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian
Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian
Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian
Pandharpuri Tambura, Gourd, wood, bone, ivory, Indian

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