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Dhodro Banam
Ho (?), Eastern India

Fig. 13: Dhodro Banam Central or eastern India (?):
H. 96 cm.
Private collection, California

This example is unusual in many respects. The instrument is large and the body is elaborately rendered in an abstract anthropomorphic form. The finial of the peg box is a strange two-headed figure.

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