KSS 900 d
(Asmat drum)
From Southern Irian Jaya,
Indonesia.

Height: 24 1/2".
Width : 5 3/4".

Carved from wood into an hourglass shape.

Monitor lizard skin top with split rattan band and beeswax drops for tuning.

Drum incised with headhunting symbols and cus-cus tails,traces of white crushed shell.

Handle carved with two ancestral figures and hornbills.

It has nice patina.

Age cracks repaired with beeswax.

Collected in Amborep village,Siretj river,2/98