Drum "em" ·  Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat · ID: 3033600

Description

wood, lizard skin, rattan, hollowed log, in the shape of an hourglass (“hourglass drum”), lizard drum skin (“varanus indicus”), elaborate handle carved of the same piece of wood, kuskus tails and lizard feet in flat relief on the corpus, dam., paint rubbed off, rep. (handle)

The object Drum “em” with the object ID 3033600 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 42.

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Comparing literature

Helfrich, Klaus u.a., Asmat, Berlin 1996, p. 87 f.