"Very Rare And Old Pair Of Slit Drums Malakula Vanuatu Oceania Primitive Art"
Carved with the effigy of the great Chief and his Bride.Representation of stylized arms and hands on one of the two drums.
Carved with a pig tooth on the left wrist curved
They are adorned with their headdress. (predominant pyramidal headdress representative for the wife).
Very Eroded ironwood (very dense and heavy exotic wood) painted.
19th century
Orap River
Big Nambas
Malakula VANUATU
High 220 and 230 cm
Width 34 cm and 38 cm