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Description : Superb Mangbetu Slit Drum, Democratic Republic of the Congo nedundu Wood, pigments Length 48in (122cm) Provenance Collected in situ ca. 1950 by a French agronomist Thence by descent French Private Collection Sotheby's, Paris, 21 June 2017, Lot 29 New York Private Collection According to Enid Schildkrout, 'A magnificent drum ( nedundo) carved out of a single piece of wood, would have been part of the court orchestra of a Mangbetu chief . . . It was played as a part of a musical ensemble consisting of several different types of drums, horns, gongs, and rattles. Tulip-shaped slit drums were made in many sizes [. . .] [. . .] In the past, a Mangbetu chief would give a slit drum to all his sub chiefs. These drums were used to announce the arrival of a king or sub chief when he traveled. The drum was beaten with a resin-tipped mallet to announce a chief's presence, to alert the audience that the chief was about to speak or take a drink of palm wine. The drum was prized according to its tonal quality and the range of its sound, as well as for its magnificent fluid lines and precise symmetry.' (Bassani, Ezio, Michael Bockemühl and Patrick McNaughton, The Power of Form - African Art from the Horstmann Collection, Skira, 2002, p. 198) Masterfully carved in an elegant, carefully constructed, inverted bell-shaped form with walls of varying degrees of thickness and a refined glass-like wood surface, the drum not only functions as a rhythmical instrument, but as a majestic, pre-modern work of art.
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