Hand drum "apa" ·  Papua New Guinea - Golf, Elema/Purari Delta · ID: 3039304

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, min. pigment remains, intact reptile drumskin, braced with the handle by rattan strings, rattan ring wrapped with gauze-like fabric for fixing, clots of resin on the drum skin, fish-mouth opening at the bottom carved with spirit faces, abrasion of paint, fine cracks, small original repair at the bottom

The object Hand drum “apa” with the object ID 3039304 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 69.

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Comparing literature

Hamson, Michael, Red Eye of the Sun, Los Angeles 2010, p. 161