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"Another type of sansa from southeast Nigeria and the Cameroons, which I call the oblong box sansa, usually has eight wooden lamellae (Fig. 1). This sansa has spread to Gabon and the Lower Congo. The technique of ornamentation combines the scorching of large areas and the engraving of lines with ahot iron point. The patterns consist of flowing leaflike forms on the top and bottom; the sides have g...
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"Another type of sansa from southeast Nigeria and the Cameroons, which I call the oblong box sansa, usually has eight wooden lamellae (Fig. 1). This sansa has spread to Gabon and the Lower Congo. The technique of ornamentation combines the scorching of large areas and the engraving of lines with ahot iron point. The patterns consist of flowing leaflike forms on the top and bottom; the sides have geometrical decorations in rhombic and triangular forms or checked patterns. The ornamentation and construction of the sound box, which is made of six thin pieces of wood, point to the Ekoi-Ibibio culture complex.This was noted by William Fagg in a catalogue of the Ethnographical Museum, Gothenburg, where three sansas are kept." (Söderberg, 1972:31)
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