拍品 96
96
A SUPERB UBANGI SLIT DRUM, carved as a bushcow, the narrow tapered head with slender raised nose, round ears and short curved horns on a long neck, the large ovoid body with carved border of zigzags, on four curved rectangular legs, with long tapered tail, shallow horizontal crack to right foreleg, some minor abrasions but otherwise good condition, glossy patina

细节
A SUPERB UBANGI SLIT DRUM, carved as a bushcow, the narrow tapered head with slender raised nose, round ears and short curved horns on a long neck, the large ovoid body with carved border of zigzags, on four curved rectangular legs, with long tapered tail, shallow horizontal crack to right foreleg, some minor abrasions but otherwise good condition, glossy patina
2m.51cm. long

拍品专文

The Museé Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, has a group of nine slit drums from the area south of the Ubangi and north of the Zaire (Congo) where the rivers form two parallel arcs. In 1937 R.P.Mortier collected a drum amongst the Lobala in the Drongo area which is almost identical in form and size to the present example, except that his has concentric circles carved on each leg. He noted that it was used by the Mbati-Ngombe (Laurenty, 1968, p.78 and Pl. XXI, no. 265). Another drum, of the same general shape but with a carved surface to the head, neck and tail, and a wider border of zigzags about the body, was collected in 1936 amongst the Loi of the lower Ubangi (op. cit., p. 79 and Pl. XXII, no. 270).