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Drum

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A drum made from a single piece of wood with carved ornaments featuring a representation of two fish (catfish), and another highly abstracted element in between them, the meaning of which remains obscure. A very old piece with a heavy patina and bearing the original signs of repair.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Kamoro
Object type
Trommel
Dimensions
Height: 470.0 mm
Diameter: 160.0 mm
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0071

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1914 or later
    who
    Herder, Hermann - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    New Guinea (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Papua (location/origin)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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