Drum "nedundu" · D. R. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3035385
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)
Description
wood, shiny blackish brown patina, decoration nails, slightly vaulted bell-shaped corpus, two handles at the sides, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, socle;
slit drums were beaten to dances and courtly music. These drums belong to the group of musical instruments called idiophones, because of their solid body that is not susceptible to tension, like the membranophones, but whose sound is produced by the vibrations of that body. Slit drums are comparable to iron gongs or instruments which are played in the manner washboards are.
The object Drum “nedundu” with the object ID 3035385 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 377.
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Comparing literature
Ginzberg, Marc, Afrikanische Formen, Mailand 2001, p. 135