Artifact Number:
 1986.141.002

Object:
INSTRUMENT, STRING
Ukulele

Material:
 Plant (tou wood), skin, metal, nylon

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Origin:
 Nukuhiva, Marquesas, Polynesia

Comments:
 Ukulele from Marquesas, with carved body and tuning picks of wood. Metal inlays, pigskin resonator, 4 nylon strings. Purchased from maker/artist Mokio on Taiohae in 1984, while Lawrence and Peterson were sailing in the islands.



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