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Oceania
New Ireland
Friction Drum, Livika
Before 1909–13
Wood, opercula, traces of lime
Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection
Indiana University Art Museum, 97.2
Unique to New Ireland, this type of friction drum represents a bird
on its back, which has its eyes marked by shells. Men played such
drums during memorial and initiation ceremonies by rubbing moistened
hands across the three tongues at the top, each of which produces
a different note. |
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