Pair of Lakadou, being a traditional Timorese musical instrument - acquired in the 1960's in (then) Portuguese Timor; the Lakadou is a bamboo instrument combining elements of string and percussion - the 'strings' or cords being carved from the side of the bamboo cylinder and thereafter tensioned with chocks of differing thickness to produce a variety of tones; the Lakadou is played by being both strummed by hand (with bamboo chips) and/or struck with thin sticks; bamboo open at one end and pierced with a small hole at the other, and with a large oval opening at the side; Very Good condition; from the collection of (retired) ethnologist Malcolm Wilson, who travelled widely through Africa and South East Asia in the 1950's-1970's