Sitar
Cleveland Museum of Art

Sitar

c. 1850

Gourd and wood with pigment, ivory, and bone; copper alloy: frets; iron alloy: strings (with one modern copper replacement)
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Many paintings of Indian court life depict female musicians holding and playing this kind of lightweight stringed instrument.

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