African lamellophone commonly known as a thumb piano, kalimba, or karimba, made up of a hollow wooden base and wooden tines. The base appears to be made from at least three separate pieces of wood (or possibly dried raffia stems) that have been attached together with a combination of thin wooden sticks running through the hollow center and an unknown black substance placed in the cracks on the back; the back of the body is made up of 3 curved pieces and the front is smooth and flat; there is an hourglass shaped sound hole approximately 7 cm from the bottom of the body. There are 9 tines that appear to have been made from the same material as the body (either wood or raffia stems), all have slight differences in length and width; tines are organized in an alternating pattern with 5 having pointed ends and 3 having flat ends (1 tine has the bottom 1/3 broken off, but this one would likely have also been flat at the end based on the pattern). The tines are placed across wooden bridges that run horizontally across the body of the instrument, they are approximately 11 1/2 cm apart and keep the tines from touching the body; the tines are held in place by a wooden dowel rod placed horizontally across them approximately halfway between the two bridges, a piece of fiber twine is wrapped around the rod and through the top of the base between each tine. There appears to be something carved into the wood on the bottom of the base, proper left side, but it is illegible.