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New Guinean Sepik River Wooden Drum ca. late 19th- early 20th Century AD. This very substantial drum is sculpted from a single timber. It has a raised nub bottom below a wave pattern register. The body of the drum has a long rectangular opening into its hollowed out center with a carved face above the opening. The drum terminates in the boldly modeled head of a crocodile surrounded by two circular relief designs. The piece has traces of pigment throughout and a wonderful aged surface complete with beating scars on one side of the opening. This is a superb ethnographic piece of very large size and in excellent condition. H. 58" (147 cm).