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Origin: Southeast Asia: Insular / Indonesia / Papua (Indonesia) / Papua (Indonesia): Regional / Cenderawasih Bay for 1883
L 53.5 cm
Cut from one piece of wood, hourglass-shaped. Top end longer, bottom end shorter. At the fold of the hourglass a cut ring. The drum is cut into narrow bands and colored in white, red and black alternately. On the drum is an iguana skin that is undamaged. There is also a cut handle, which stops from the bottom to just in front of the top. The handle is completely decorated with incised ornaments.
Inventory number: RV-370-3895
Material: wood; skin (iguana)