Gong

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Description

wood, corroded iron, the long handle wrapped with bulges of fabric, embroidered with cowrie snails and glass beads, crowned by a janus head with nearly identical facial features, min. dam., lose head, fine cracks and tears;
single and double gongs, commonly made of iron, are the visual emblem and the authoritative voice of the regulatory society throughout the Grassfields.

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Comparing literature

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 128

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