Zemanek-Münster

Hand drum "kundu"

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik
Vendu 800 €
Provenance
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany
Poley, Frankfurt, Germany
Taille
H: 52 cm
H: 20.5 inch

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, dark paint, hourglass-shaped, handle in form of en elongated crodolile, intact reptile drum skin, rotan ring missing, min. dam., fissures, slight traces of abrasion;
the corpus of the drum has been hollowed with glowing logs in a procedure lasting for weeks and months. Afterwards the surface was smoothened with the skin of saw fish or rough leaves.


Littérature comparée

Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 104

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