Slot Drum
Tschokwe
Reference: IDIOF-1
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- Height
- 23 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Small groove drum. The sound is obtained by hitting the toothpick against the walls of the same, serving the small sound box well. Used in both…
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Full original description
Small groove drum. The sound is obtained by hitting the toothpick against the walls of the same, serving the small sound box well. Used in both playful and funeral celebrations. Those possessed by sorcerers serve to mark the rhythm of both divinatory processes and hallucinatory traces.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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