African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection

African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection

€800.00
€800.00
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African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
  • African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection
African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection

African Wooden Drum with Hide Head and Ringed Pedestal Foot — Egon Guenther Collection

€800.00
€800.00

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A single-headed African drum with an elongated, gently swelling wooden body, animal-hide membrane and ringed pedestal foot. A broad dark collar encircles the upper body, beside a projecting pierced wooden lug retaining a hide loop. Its form may be compared with Central African pedestal drums, including Metropolitan Museum of Art example 89.4.538, catalogued as probably Mbala, Democratic Republic of the Congo. This comparison does not establish the present drum’s cultural attribution or country of manufacture. Its original performance context is unrecorded. www.metmuseum.org

The body appears to have been carved and hollowed from a single timber section, with visible tool facets and an open underside. The hide extends over the rim and is secured at spaced attachment points, with patches of hair surviving around its skirt. Surface wear, small cracks and local losses remain visible. Its presence in the Guenther family collections since the early 1970s provides an ownership history, although a more precise manufacture date has not been established.

Circa: Before the early 1970s; exact manufacture date undetermined.

Provenance: Egon Guenther Collection, Johannesburg, from at least the early 1970s, according to family history; inherited by his son, Thomas Guenther, in 2007. Subsequently Thomas Guenther Collection, Netherlands.

Measurements: Height 87 cm × maximum body diameter 29.5 cm.
Weight: 10.9 kg.

 

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