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Slit Gong

Mambila Slit Drum/Gong

Northwestern Cameroon & Eastern Nigeria
Mambila

Wood
1940's

Height: 23 inches
Idiophone - Struck Directly

Talking drums used by chiefs to summons villagers to meetings. The head has a heart-shaped face and is decorated with small wooden pegs, representing an ancestral spirit.

 

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Catalog#: AF-IDST-130-15