Rare wood trumpet ·  Tanzania, Nyamwezi/Sangu · ID: 3039189

Description

blackish brown patina, consisting of two parts, horn-shaped head piece inserted in the cylindrical corpus, fixed by animal skin, incised diamond-shaped patterns in three compartments, slightly dam., minor missing parts (rim of the bell mouth), traces of insect caused damage;
wooden trumpets are very rare among the peoples of Tanzania. A comparable object once was in the collection of Walter Bareiss and is depicted in the publication “Kilengi” and in the standard work on Tanzanian art by Jens Jahn. The peoples of eastern Tanzania considered trumpets as status symbols “of chiefs or of the leaders of voluntary associations”.

The object Rare wood trumpet with the object ID 3039189 was part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction on October 31, 2015. The object with the lot number 542 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200 with an asking price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Jahn, Jens (Hg.), Tanzania, München 1994, p. 264, ill. 157