A Torres Strait Drum, warup
carved as a stylised fish, of waisted form, the lower half of the resonance chamber flared and parted to resemble a gaping mouth, the sides perforated for seed suspensions and incised on either side with a crescentic motif, 106cm.
Sold for
£6,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The waisted section inscribed in red with the collection number 561.00, for Budapest Ethnographic Museum
Category: Antiquities
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