Cigar Box Guitar
Cigar Box Guitar
- Description (Brief)
- This cigar box guitar was made by an unknown maker in North Carolina around 1875-1899. It is a four course (4x1) guitar made from a Morris & Son cigar box. Homemade instruments such as cigar box guitars and fiddles played an important part in jug bands and blues music in the late 19th century through the Great Depression.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1875-1899
- place made
- United States: North Carolina
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 55.88 cm x 19.05 cm x 12.065 cm
- ID Number
- MI.096844
- accession number
- 34639
- catalog number
- 096844
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Hallock
- subject
- Music
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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