Specifications

• Height: 152 cm
• Material: wood, lizard skin, pigments
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: em
• Price realised: $ 3000,- hp

Provenance

Rudi and Inge Janknecht, The Netherlands; Sotheby’s NY, 19-5-2000, lot 149

Publications

Additional information

The hourglass shaped drum has anthropomorphic figures carved on the body; the open worked ridge shows a fish, a hornbill head and an anthropomorphic head. Casuarinen Coast drum.