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The large slit drum (garamut) is richly engraved and the patterns are highlighted with white pigment. It was made from a single tree trunk. These instruments were used both to send signals over long distances, as well as for rituals.
Width: 300.0 mm Height: 570.0 mm Length: 1760.0 mm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Wood, Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0076
Provenance and sources
Production
when
around 1900
Change of legal title: Purchase
when
1907
Change of physical control or legal title
where
Sepik (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
who
Städtisches Völkermuseum Frankfurt a. M. - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding: Oceania
Provenance
Purchase from the Völkerkundemuseum Frankfurt a. M. (1904 -1946), 11 October 1907
The Frankfurt museum bought the slit drum from Friedrich Wandres (1870-1937) from Gengenbach in Breisgau. He acquired the object during the German colonial period in Papua New Guinea (1884-1914), where he worked as a plantation manager for the New Guinea Company at the trading station Stephansort (near Bogadjim). It is not known how he came into possession of the object.
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Wood carving
marmar
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Necklace
kanūr in in
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Belt
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Taro tamper
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Club
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Fibre layer of the coconut
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Spear blade (fragment)
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Apron
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Snail shell money
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Hatchet blade
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