From Africa to the New World

♦ The New World Banjo ♦ African Ancestors ♦ Lute Family ♦ Related Topics ♦

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Traditional Gwari musicians playing large gourd-bodied kaburu plucked lutes and a goje fiddle, Nigeria.          
(Collection of Shlomo Pestcoe)

   
One of the oldest known depictions of an early gourd banjo.
The Old Plantation, anonymous folk painting, South Carolina, circa 1790.
(The Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA)

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