Null Kundu" hourglass-shaped drum, hollowed-out trunk. Skin missing. Handle in t…

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Kundu" hourglass-shaped drum, hollowed-out trunk. Skin missing. Handle in the middle with a carved zooanthropomorph ancestor head with a long nose at each end. Engravings of curvilinear geometric motifs on the sides. Sepik, Papua New Guinea. H. 43.5 cm.

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Kundu" hourglass-shaped drum, hollowed-out trunk. Skin missing. Handle in the middle with a carved zooanthropomorph ancestor head with a long nose at each end. Engravings of curvilinear geometric motifs on the sides. Sepik, Papua New Guinea. H. 43.5 cm.

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