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Bonang Barung Slendro from the Gamelan Digul

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posted on 2018-07-25, 07:24 authored by Music Archive of Monash University
Like all the other instruments of the Gamelan Digul, this gong chime set was made in 1926 from any materials at hand by Javanese anti-colonial prisoners in a Dutch prison camp in West Irian (now Papua New Guinea). A wooden frame supporting 12 pannikins in two rows. The pannikins are held in position with four rows of string threaded through the wooden frame. Photo: Chris Basile, 2012.

History

Collector/donor

Collection of Indonesian Music and Artefacts

Geographic location

Java, Indonesia

Ethno/lingual group

Javanese

Collection type

Instrument