Slit drum "nkonko" ·  R. D. Congo, Yombe · ID: 3035997

Description

wood, dark brown patina, slightly encrusted patina, plantfibre cord, boat-shaped corpus, crowned by a human head, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, base;
Robert Farris Thompson states that the images adorning wooden slit gongs may represent important dead persons, and that the tones may allude to the voices of the ancestors.

Littérature comparée

Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, Washington D.C. 1989, p. 122