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Ritual gong "mokenge" ·  Gabon, Tsogho · ID: 3045658

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Provenance
Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn Switzerland
René Rickli, Olten, Switzerland
Size
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch

Description

iron, wood, missing parts (gong corpus), base

This gong type is said to be used in the Tsogho men’s initiation association called “evovi”. It has been suggested that it was struck when resolving judicial matters.


The object Ritual gong “mokenge” with the object ID 3045658 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 95.

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Comparing literature

Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, New York 1989, p. 139, ill. 85


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