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Hand drum "kundu"
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Lot 41
80th Tribal Art Auction

Hand drum "kundu"

Papua New Guinea - Sepik
sold EUR 800
Provenance
Inge Hett, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 63 cm
H: 24.8 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, traces of white pigment, intact monitor-lizard drum-skin, fine incisions on both sides representing the gaping jaws of two crocodiles, the handle carved with two long-nosed spirit figures, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion

Comparing literature

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 206
Oceania

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