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Rasp

Baka Rasp

Cameroon
Baka Pygmies

Wood
ca. Mid 20th century

Length: 12.5 inches
Idiophone - Struck Indirectly - Scraped

Figural Baka (Bakola) rasp with usage traces and drying cracks. Hand carved from one piece of wood. When referring to African rainforest hunter-gathers, it is preferable to use the native name by which they call themselves. Pygmies is a non-native word arbitrarily assigned from outside.

 

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Catalog#: AF-IDST-167-21