Berimbau
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The berimbau is a traditional Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as Sekitulege among the Baganda and Busoga.
Angola musical bow (1922), known as berimbau in Brazil.
An old african urucungo player, by Debret (1826). He wrote that "often one of the slaves, missing his homeland, let out his voice and sang in the public squares and around the fountains."
A caxixi, baqueta, and dobrão
Three berimbau players playing the rhythm for a capoeira in Baltimore, MA, featuring Mestre Cobra Mansa
Musical bow
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The musical bow is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via the slave trade. It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet long, and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal. It can be played with the hands or a wooden stick or branch. It is uncertain if the musical bow developed from the hunting bow, though the San or Bushmen people of the Kalahari Desert do convert their hunting bows to musical use.
India, ca. 1725, Bundi style. A divine musician plays a hunting bow with its tip placed in a resonance pot. Possible pinaka vina or ravanahatha.
Lithograph of scene from the Trois Frères cave, showing a figure on the wall whose bow(?) has been thought to possibly be musical.
Madosini playing the umrubhe mouth bow.
The Uhadi or 'thomo' musical bow used by the Basotho people.