Slit drum ·  Cameroon, Mambila · ID: 3035086

Description

wood, small remains of dark brown patina, cylindrical corpus, extremely destroyed by insect caused damage, the front side carved with an anthropomorphic head with tribe-typical face, cracks (chin), metal socle

The object Slit drum with the object ID 3035086 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 318 achieved a sales price of EUR 780.

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