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Summary

Description
English: Detail from a rudra veena: the string holder shaped like a bird is traditional for the instrument, and bird iconography is found on ancestral instruments as well, including the kinnari veena.
Date 20 th century
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author Unnamed photographer, placed in CC0 on the image's web page at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other versions
Mahati Vina, 19th century, Indian (North) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bird on rudra veena, string holder, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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