Slit drum ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3038886

Description

wood, partly shiny brown patina, elongated cylindrical corpus with slit-like opening, crowned by a human head and standing quadruped (tortoise?), drum stick missing, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage and abrasion, base;
comparable object relating to the iconography, probably by the same artist Yale Archive No. 0033861.

The object Slit drum with the object ID 3038886 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 207.

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Comparing literature

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 103