Head of a garamut (stone carved and pre-contact) (1) - Hardwood - hed bilong garamut - Yimar - Korewori River, Papua New Guinea
This is the stone-carved head of a Garamut slit drum of the Yimar at Korewori in New Guinea. Provenance: collected in the 1930s by Georg Höltker for the Styler Mission Museum "HAUS VÖLKER UND KULTUREN", Sankt Augustin near Bonn, inventory number: 71. 1. 79. , Acquired in exchange by Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart.
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This is the stone-carved head of a Garamut slit drum of the Yimar at Korewori in New Guinea. Provenance: collected in the 1930s by Georg Höltker for the Styler Mission Museum "HAUS VÖLKER UND KULTUREN", Sankt Augustin near Bonn, inventory number: 71. 1. 79. , Acquired in exchange by Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart.