Artifact Number:
1979.508
Object:
INSTRUMENT, STRING
Guitarra
Material:
Plant (spruce, pine, prado), ivory, metal
Dimensions:
73 x 31 x 14 cm
Origin:
Portugal, Europe
Comments:
Viola de'arrum, or Guitarra from Madeira. Soundboard of spruce, inlay and purfling of dyed pine. 12 steel strings, arranged in groups of 2-3-3-2-2. The scroll head was popular in 1850's. Made in Lisbon in 1914 by Augusto Viera; originally owned by Gregorio de Caires of Lisbon, who immigrated to Honolulu in 1900.
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