Hand drum "kundu" · Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3033832
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, GermanyLudwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany
Poley, Frankfurt, Germany
Size
H: 52 cm
H: 20.5 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, dark paint, hourglass-shaped, handle in form of en elongated crodolile, intact reptile drum skin, rotan ring missing, min. dam., fissures, slight traces of abrasion;
the corpus of the drum has been hollowed with glowing logs in a procedure lasting for weeks and months. Afterwards the surface was smoothened with the skin of saw fish or rough leaves.
Comparing literature
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 104