African basket bowl made of wood and I believe clay Help with origin and composition

I got the bowl in a duffle bag of old African damaged carving hand made instruments musical and such

The bowl is 5 1/2" X 1/2" X 2"
OH yeah thee is a stripe of animal leather on the bottom.

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I've never seen anything like this with clay mud smeared on it?

(I would like to see the musical instruments too please!) -x

 

Some mixture to make it watertight?

@2manybooks ?

 

Maybe the remains of a Fang Bieri reliquary basket.

 

Here are the ones I was referring to. The string instrument and the box instrument and the reef rattle. Having taken a second look at the reefs I think this might be some type of chest ceremonial piece for dancing. I have a duffle bag of wood sculptures some very old looking that was a part of this collection

 

The box instrument is a thumb piano, a type of instrument known throughout the world; called a kalimba in the Caribbean, and known as a mbira in Zimbabwe.

 

I agree, anundverkaufen, good ID!

 

Thanks anundverkaufen That was quick lot of similar ones online

 

I thought those were all musical instruments. I believe @anundverkaufen may have landed on the correct identification of your basket. Thanks @all_fakes for the instrument identifications. Much appreciation to you both!

 

What about the animal hair string instrument ( I keep wanting to call it a violin ) I was told that it had a very unusual sound. Does anyone recognize that instrument?

 

I'm not sure about the animal-hair instrument; it would have been bowed, like a violin; and the name would depend on the culture it was from. In China it would be an Erhu, or two-string Chinese violin; but there are similar instruments known under different names in nearby cultures.

 

The bow was gone when I came back a few days later.

 

The reed item is fill ith pebbles and sand. I put that tape there because I did not want to lose the original content.

 

I have a duffle bag full of broken sculpture that came with the items above. Will be digging them out soon to post to this thread

 

new thread would be preferable....