Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914 · Papua New Guinea - Astrolabe Bay · ID: 3051827
Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany (1992)
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.
The object Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914 with the object ID 3051827 was part of the auction Auction 104 on April 12, 2025, lot number 135 at that time and is currently available for EUR 500 in Open sale.
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