Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914 · Papua New Guinea - Astrolabe Bay · ID: 3051827
Price
EUR 500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Freedun Ostowar, Berlin, GermanyFrank Reiter, Berlin, Germany (1992)
Size
H: 57 cm
H: 22.4 inch
Description
wood, red ochre, resin, intact covering of monitor skin (apparently renewed), collection no. “1128”, rest.
Comparable drums illustrated in “Beschreibender Catalog der Ethnographischen Sammlung Ludwig Biró’s aus Deutsch-Neu-Guinea (Astrolabe Bai)”, Budapest 1901, p. 230/231, plates XIX & XX.
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.