Waisted single membrane drum (membrane missing) with handle. Carved with longitudinal relief snakes. [MJD 19/11/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Waisted single membrane drum (membrane missing) with handle. Carved with longitudinal relief snakes. [MJD 19/11/2008]
Long description: Waisted single membrane drum (membrane missing) with handle. Carved with longitudinal relief snakes with eyelets through their bodies, through which palm leaf streamers would have been tied; also with lightly incised curvilinear designs. [MJD 19/11/2008]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province Kiriwina Goodenough District Trobriand Islands
Person: Field collector Alan John Villiers; PRM source Nancie Villiers
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1930
Date collected: 1930s
Acquisition information: Donated: 05/1988
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Decorated, Process Perforated, Process Hollowed
Dimensions: Length 900 mm, Diameter: max 140 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1988.23.15

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