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Lower Sepik Kundu Drum

Lower Sepik, PNG
New Guinea

Wood, Reptile Skin
Early 20th century

57 cm

A Lower Sepik Drum (Kundu) sculptured with a crocodile motif in open work relief, decorated with incised figurative motifs, cane bound drumming membrane intact, and weathered. Provenance: Dr. David S. Johnson Collection of Pacific Island and New Guinea Art.

 

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Catalog#: HWMC