Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Witu Island
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”
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.