Drum "em" · Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat · ID: 3033600
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Provenance
Anton Eckert, Munich, GermanySize
H: 98 cm
H: 38.6 inch
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)
Comparing literature
Helfrich, Klaus u.a., Asmat, Berlin 1996, p. 87 f.