Friction Idiophone | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Friction Idiophone
An idiophone, often referred to as a »drum«, which is made to sound by stroking the three tongues with one's hands. However, it is not an ordinary instrument for everyday use, but associated with Malangan festivities on New Ireland, a cycle of celebrations that take place on the occasion of a person's death and as a ritual of remembrance of the deceased that lasts for several years.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Idiofon
Dimensions
Breite: 190.0 mm, Höhe: 253.0 mm, Länge: 550.0 mm
Material/Technique
Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0075
Provenance and sources
when
End of the 19th century
when
11.10.1907
where
New Ireland (formerly New Mecklenburg) (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
who
Städtisches Völkermuseum Frankfurt a. M. - Collectors
Provenance
Purchase from the Völkerkundemuseum Frankfurt (1904-1946), 11 October 1907
The Frankfurt museum bought the friction idiophone 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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