Very rare Harp of the Bamileke from Cameroon.

The size are 49 cm long.

Bow harp, Garoua Cameroon

Five-stringed instrument, round wooden neck with side pegs, wooden bow and boat-shaped body, animal skin membrane. Wood, leather, twisted rope. The player used this harp as accompaniment to his singing. The design resembles the five-stringed Ganzavar or Ganjavar harps used in the Bamileke culture of the region or the Bow harp of the Bamileke, Cameroon,

The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, 

Bamiléké means people of faith.The Grassfields people do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the individual kingdoms to which they belong or else refer to themselves as "Ngrafi" for “grassfields people"