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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 1038206, member: 8267&quot;]I believe it is Mangbetu, from the Congo, similar to this one at the Metropolitan Museum in NY:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]208115[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.412/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.412/" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.412/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you google &quot;Mangbetu harp&quot; you will find more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is very nicely carved, with the full figures on the neck (as opposed to just a head). It looks like the neck may be ivory, which was sometimes used for these harps. The diagnostic features of faint cross-hatching (known as schreger lines) will be most visible on the cross section on the top of the heads.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://collections.nmmusd.org/Africa/5893/ArchedHarp5893.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.nmmusd.org/Africa/5893/ArchedHarp5893.html" rel="nofollow">http://collections.nmmusd.org/Africa/5893/ArchedHarp5893.html</a></p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319553" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319553" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319553</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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