Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. chordophones
8. zitherlike chordophones
9. musical bows
10. mouth bows

Anotations

Scope note:

Mouth bows of the southern Sotho of southern Africa, consisting of a thick straight stick with slender flexible ends notched at their extremities to hold a wire string; a loop of gut pulls the wire string towards the center portion of the bow, dividing it into two unequal sections yielding fundamentals a fourth apart. The string is plucked and stopped by hand.