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 last part of the auction Auction 104 at April 12, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 135.
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