Shamisen

Unknown, Japanese, Japanese

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collected 1931

Wood, skin, and cloth

Overall: 37 13/16 in. (96 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sarah H. and Charles E. Griffith, Class of 1915

157.3.13836

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Charles Edmund Griffith (1892-1964) and Susan "Sarah" Hoyt Griffith (1894-1966); given to present collection, 1957.

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