Hand drum "kundu" ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3033832

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.

The object Hand drum “kundu” with the object ID 3033832 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 75 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.

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Comparing literature

Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 104