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Mbira in Calabash Resonator

A wooden mbira with metal keys sits inside a hollowed-out calabash resonator decorated with shells and bottle caps, resting on a woven mat in a sunlit courtyard with red earth.

An mbira set in its calabash resonator on a woven mat in a courtyard in Harare in late afternoon, the metal keys fanned across the hardwood board catching the low sun one by one, shell rattles on the rim, long shadows across the mat, a palette of iron, calabash ochre and red earth, 85mm macro See more

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