Slit drum ·  R. D. 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.

Littérature comparée

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