Two hand drums "kundu" ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - 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.

Littérature comparée

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