Bow harp · D. R. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3039029
sold
EUR 1,900
Size
H: 48 cm
H: 18.9 inch
Description
wooden corpus, waisted in the middle, stretched with animal skin, two resonance holes, carved with a human head with typical skull deformation, originally five wooden pegs for attachment of the strings (three pegs and strings now missing), min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, base
The object Bow harp with the object ID 3039029 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 463 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,900.
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Comparing literature
Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! California 1999, p. 297, ill. 72