Cleveland Museum of Art
Taus
- Date
- c. 1800
- Medium
- Polychromed wood, parchment, bone or ivory, gut, and metal strings; frets: bronze
- Culture
- India, Punjab
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The taus was designed by a Sikh Guru to combine the sounds of string instruments and the plaintive cry of the peacock.
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