Drum ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3033895

Description

wood, dark brown encrusted patina, animal skin, the corpus carved with various motifs in half relief, the drum skin fixed by wooden plugs, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, fissures, slight traces of abrasion;
such drums were used to announce the society’s meetings and its decisions regarding punishment for kings or commonors who had committed offenses against “onile”.

The object Drum with the object ID 3033895 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 321.

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Comparing literature

Drewal, Henry John, Pemberton, John, Yoruba, New York 1989, p. 211, ill. 243