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Friction Idiophone

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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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Idiofon
Dimensions
Width: 190.0 mm
Height: 253.0 mm
Length: 550.0 mm
Material/Technique
Turbo screw, Wood, Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0075

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    End of the 19th century
  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    11.10.1907
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    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
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
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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CC0 1.0 DEED

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