Garamut (tok pisin) | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Slotted drum
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.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Slit Drum
Dimensions
Width: 300.0 mm
Height: 570.0 mm
Length: 1760.0 mm
Height: 570.0 mm
Length: 1760.0 mm
Material/Technique
Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0076
Provenance and sources
when
around 1900
when
1907
where
Sepik (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
who
Städtisches Völkermuseum Frankfurt a. M. - Collectors
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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