Handdrum "kundu" ·  Papua New Guinea - Maprik · ID: 3035344

Description

wood, dark brown patina, black paint, red and white pigment, hourglass-shaped corpus, resonance chamber with intact animal drum skin, small clumps of resin for tuning on its surface (one preserved, traces of eight further ones visible), ornamental decor in flat relief, projecting handle, slightly dam., spread with clay-like mass in four places (in one place chipped off, making the breakage visible), fissures, rattan rings for additionally fixing the drum skin missing

The object Handdrum “kundu” with the object ID 3035344 was part of the auction 74th tribal art auction on September 7, 2013. The object with the lot number 22 achieved a sales price of EUR 700 with an asking price of EUR 600.

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