Two hand drums "kundu"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
sold
EUR 200
Provenance
Michael Beisert, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ 1970-80)Size
H: 43 cm & 34 cm
H: 16.9 inch & 13.4 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, traces of white pigment, hour-glass-shaped, bigger drum with small remains of the covering with lizard skin, rotan rings of both drums missing, rep. (cracks partly spread with blackish mass);
the crocodiles represent the two major components of the cosmos: the sky and the earth. The two sound chambers are also symbolically related to earth and sky. The handle of the drum establishing a link between the two worlds.