height 42 1/2in Provenance: Kuhn Collection, Los Angeles, 1975 Published and Exhibited: "Turn up the Music! A Celebration of African Music", Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999, cat. no. 112: "This drum, like catalog number 111, was carved by the famed Asante carver Osei Bonsu and served as the principal drum of a popular band called ntan. Both drums have female breasts because such a drum is seen as the "mother of the group" - its focus and gathering point. Like many other drums by Bonsu, the relief carvings on the surface represent conventionalized sayings drawn from the enormous corpus of Akan oral literature - proverbs, riddles, boasts, insults, folktales, etc."
height 42 1/2in Provenance: Kuhn Collection, Los Angeles, 1975 Published and Exhibited: "Turn up the Music! A Celebration of African Music", Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999, cat. no. 112: "This drum, like catalog number 111, was carved by the famed Asante carver Osei Bonsu and served as the principal drum of a popular band called ntan. Both drums have female breasts because such a drum is seen as the "mother of the group" - its focus and gathering point. Like many other drums by Bonsu, the relief carvings on the surface represent conventionalized sayings drawn from the enormous corpus of Akan oral literature - proverbs, riddles, boasts, insults, folktales, etc."
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen
