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	Catalog #	Name	Description
1	2022-27-46	Bow	Instrument bow of unknown origin. The stick of the bow is a cylindrical piece of wood which tapers towards the tip, it has been painted black; white decorative knobs (possibly made of plastic) have been paced on both ends of the stick. A wooden "frog" is located approximately 7 cm from the bottom of the bow, this holds the animal hair in place and keeps it from touching the stick; the frog and stick are both wrapped with black thread which keeps the bow hair tight. The bow hair attaches to the tip of the bow through a hole in which it is knotted and coated with a hard, black material.
2	2022-27-47	Bow	Instrument bow of unknown origin. The stick of the bow is a cylindrical piece of wood (possibly bamboo) which curves slightly in the middle. 4 strands of green thread are stretched from one end of the stick to the other and are tied through holes made in the wood at each end to keep them in place.
3	2022-27-49	Bow	Instrument bow, possibly for the stand up bass. The stick of the bow is a cylindrical piece of wood which curves down at the tip where the bow hair attaches; the wood is unpainted. At the bottom of the stick is a metal screw which is used to tighten or loosen the frog, thus tightening or loosening the animal hair (most likely horse); the frog is made of black painted wood; a metal ferrule and white plastic slide on the side of the frog not touching the stick hold the bow hair in place and keeping it from touching the stick. Three pieces of fabric of varying widths, two brown one reddish tan, are wrapped around the stick just above the frog.
4	2022-27-56	Rattle	Rattle made from bamboo. Rattle consists of a handle made from a longer, thinner piece of bamboo which has two shorter and wider pieces of the same material attached on either side of it via carved notches and an unknown adhesive. The two pieces of wood/cane attached to the handle are filled with what appears to be small metal balls, based on what can be seen through a crack in one of them. Culture is unknown.
5	2022-27-80	Sarangi	A bowed string instrument from South Asia, most often used to accompany vocal and dance performances because of it's ability to match the tone of human vocalization. The body, neck, and peg box all appear to have been carved from a single piece of wood which has been ornamented with carvings and inlays of what appears to be white plastic, meant to imitate the appearance of ivory. The body of the instrument is hollowed out and has a thin, white material stretched over it; a strip of reddish-brown leather/faux leather belt has been stretched tightly over the top of the body and is held in place via metal nails on either side of the face; a white plastic bridge sits on top of this belt. At the bottom of the instrument there is another piece of reddish-brown leather/faux leather which protects the face/body from damage from the strings; directly below this is a protruding string holder. There are a total of 3 played strings made from either gut or nylon and 37 sympathetic strings made from metal; the playable strings attach to large, wooden tuning pegs with rounded knobs on the end, contained in the area of the peg box closest to the neck, they then run over a small white plastic bridge at the top of the neck before going down the neck and over the primary bridge (notable that there are four of these pegs but only three strings, this is because this instrument has an optional fourth string which would traditionally be made of metal and act as an additional sympathetic string). The sympathetic strings originate from various points around the instrument: 13 start at the top of the peg box, above the playable strings, with 11 wooden pegs on the top of the instrument and two on the proper right side, these strings are split into two groups by a white plastic partition with holes for the strings and two small, flat bridges (also made from white plastic) with each group going down a different side of the neck; the remaining 24 strings start from wooden pegs contained along the proper right side of the neck, with the strings coming up through small holes made in the neck before travelling down the the primary bridge, 9 of these strings utilize shorter pegs and come through holes that have been arranged in a straight line down the proper right side of the neck while the remaining 15 utilize much longer pegs and come through holes which have been arranged diagonally, starting at the top of the neck on the proper left and moving inward towards the center at the bottom of the neck; all of these metal sympathetic strings go through holes made in the primary bridge rather than over it. There are two stickers near the top of the instrument: one on the very top of the peg box is black and white and contains both English and Hindi text, the English text reads "Rikhi Ram Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co. - 8-A. Marina Arcade. Connaught Circus New Delhi" and the Hindi most likely reads the same, between the English and Hindi there is an image of a figure in the center with a collection of various instruments reflected on either side; on the proper left side of the peg box is a gold sticker with red and black lettering which reads "Rikhi Ram Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. 8-A. Marina Arcade, Connaught Circus, New Delhi.-I. (Suppliers to A.I.R)".