Small slit drum

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Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, kaolin, round bodied corpus, rising from two legs, flat handle-shaped projections on either side, corpus and projections covered with flat incised ornaments (circles, rhombs, zigzag), traces of kaolin to highlight the designs, drilled hole for support, slightly dam., paint rubbed off, crack (one side the projections);
the minature version of larger (up to two meters long) slit drums.

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Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L. (ed.), Kongo Kingdom Art, China 2003, p. 167, ill. 4,32

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