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| !Kung San Woman playing a gut pluriarc 14 x 9 inches, oil on canvas, 2019 |
The te bow is a traditional instrument made a wooden post and played with a gut bow. A recording of it made by Megan Biesele in Botswana in 1972 appears on Instrumental Music of the Kalahari San (Ethnic Folkways, 1982) and is featured in this year's 100. The traditional instruments of the !Kung San people, all heard on the record, are, beside the te bow, the hunting bow, the plurirac (depicted above) and the sitengena (a thumb piano.) Many recordings of the San People have been presented here under different labels: San, Khoisan, and !Kung, all posts comment on the links between them and the earliest people/music.
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