Goge

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton during his trip to Cameroon in 1928-1929. It is a one-string, spike-bowl fiddle made with a flat gourd resonator, covered with animal skin nailed to the gourd edges (mixture of wooden pins and iron nails). The skin has a soundhole cut at the "bass" side near the edge of the resonator. The neck is made of vine, and the …