Zemanek-Münster

Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914 ·  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Witu Island · ID: 3051825

sold EUR 500
Provenance
Paul Barschdorff, Kleinmachnow, Germany (coll. in situ, 1907-1914)
Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany (1968)
Barschdorf worked as a teacher at the state school in Namanula near Rabaul from 1907-1914.
Size
H: 53,5 cm
H: 21.1 inch

Description

wood, black pigment, lime, intact covering with monitor lizard skin, fixed with a ring of bark strips wrapped with bark cloth, collection no. “65 ME”


The object Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914 with the object ID 3051825 was last part of the auction Auction 104 at April 12, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 156 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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Notices

This object is subject to CITES. Please note that it can only be sent within the European Union. At the present time export in third countries is prohibited, respectively, export licenses in third countries for objects containing or made of protected materials are only granted under stringent conditions.


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