Two hand drums "kundu" ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3032465

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.

The object Two hand drums “kundu” with the object ID 3032465 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 36 achieved a sales price of EUR 200.

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Comparing literature

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 206