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THBEarly 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Kundu Drum
Lot 130
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early 20th century CE. A skillfully carved and vibrantly painted wooden kundu drum with a zoomorphic base. The lovely instrument presents a circular drum head covered in cloth, a cylindrical body, a corseted in the mid-section with a protruding handle, and a pointed base in the form of an animal head. Beautifully adorned with zig-zag horizontal registers in shades of russet, ochre, white, and brown, the musical creature displays huge, annular eyes held wide-open, a raised nose with a horizontal drill hole, tan rope frayed at each end to represent whiskers, and a huge open mouth displaying sharp, jagged teeth. The other end of the instrument is painted with two sizable, almond-shaped eyes. Both the eyes of the creature and the eyes near the drum head showcase inlaid-white stone pupils surrounded by black and crimson painted seeds as irises. Five decorative spikes line the back of the animal, while four raised circles embellish the center of the drum head. Size: 6.875" in diameter x 29.5" H (17.5 cm x 74.9 cm)
Kundu drums are a popular musical instrument of New Guinea, and most men who participated in the traditional singsings owned a drum. To make this drum, a log was placed on hot coals positioned at the center and strategically burnt and scraped out in the middle. Then the outer design was added. This example presents a masterful composition of Oceanic art!
Provenance: private Lowe collection, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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#138339Two fissures on one side of mouth. One stone pupil and six painted seeds missing. Some tearing to periphery of fiber drum head. Expected surface wear as shown. Otherwise, very nice with excellent remaining pigments.Condition
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