Scary: A 19th century CE Central African lyre fashioned from human skull, antelope horns, skin and hair

Yep, That's a Lyre Made From a Human Skull - Bloody Disgusting

The oldest playable instruments are red-crowned crane-bone flutes from China’s Neolithic Age and in Tibet thigh-bone trumpets (rkangling) and skull drums (damaru) were used.

A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut,  and hair. 19th century CE, It is currently stored at The Metropolitan  museum[1080x1069]. : r/ArtefactPorn

Skull lyres, thought to be from Ethiopia, are rare, scarcely documented and found only in museums. While some have suggested a symbolic or clandestine ritual use for these lyres, there is no known tradition. Most likely it is a sensational item made for the nineteenth-century European market.

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