Drum
29-50-676
From: New Guinea | Palimbei
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-676 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Palimbei |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Lizard Skin |
| Description | Wooden. Cf. 29-50-671. The "handle" is here two wooden loops carved from the body of the drum, for string. The loops form the noses of two coalescing human masks incised in the wood. Another mask occurs in the carving of the lower half of the drum: otherwise similar to that of 29-50-673. Lizard skin drumhead. |
| Length | 53.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 15 - Other Number |
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