Artifact Number:
 1990.107.001a

Object:
INSTRUMENT, STRING
Violin

Material:
 Plant (wood), metal

Dimensions:
 59 x 20 x 4 cm

Origin:
 Europe

Comments:
 Violin signed by Jacob Steiner (1698). Said to be the first of its kind in Hawaii, brought from England by John E. Barnard, the clerk of the Supreme Court under Kalakaua, in the late 19th century. With case (b), bow (c) , and scarf (inside case) (d).



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