MEXICAN CARVED WOODEN SLIT DRUM / TEPONAZTLI,

MEXICAN CARVED WOODEN SLIT DRUM / TEPONAZTLI, in the form of a boar or chimera. Retains an old surface with warm color. 20th century. 9 1/2" H. Provenance: From a Virginia private collection.

A Carved wooden slit drum or gong with half moon shape, handle and embellished with metal tacks and anthropomorphic ancestor head. Mangbetu peoples, Congo/ DRC/ central Africa. The drum has a well han

A rare and finely carved wooden Slit-Drum Hunting Charm (N-kookwa Ngoombu), a miniature slit drum not used as a percussion instrument but rather a vessel for magic potions to enable it as a powerful a

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century.A massive, hand-carved wooden slit drum with a long body. Polychrome decorated with a full figure to one end.75 inches

A Tall carved wooden slit drum with elaborate ancestor head on top and well worn surface suggesting field use over many years. The Drum features the head on an ancestor with a highly ornate coiffure a

A large carved wooden slit drum or idiophone used in traditional villages as a security system. Specific patterns were played to communicate to others who was on duty patrolling the village, which giv

A Very finely carved wooden slit drum, percussion instrument with a classic ancestral face, with stylized nose and well handled surface, and decorated with a charming monkey on top. Yaka peoples, Cong

A Large and rare carved wooden Slit drum or Nedundu drum with flared form, well handled and worn edges, metal accents , tribal repairs with metal staples and sheets of metal over some areas, carved in

A carved wooden slit drum with finely rendered ancestor face on top and a well handled surface. Yaka peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. The drum measures 17 x 3 inches. Provenance: Ex Robert Banks c

A tall carved wooden "slit" drum used by village diviner to play repetitive drum beats to enter a trance like state and perform divination rituals. This drum has an undeniable well handled surface pat

A very fine older carved wooden slit drum percussion instrument with an ornate and highly stylized ancestor face and painted with earthen pigments. Yaka peoples, Congo, Africa. The drum measures 27.5

A rare large carved wooden slit drum from the Tabwa peoples or related ethnic group, Congo, central Africa. Large hollowed out log with slits to allow sound to travel. Great patina from handling and w

A rare carved wooden slit drum from the lagoons region of west Africa. This Drum or wood block percussion instrument comes from a region known as the lagoons, which is coastal Ivory Coast and Ghana. L

Tall slender carved wooden slit style drum with a wonderfully stylized ancestor style head on top, the drum shows plenty of handling and wear suggesting good age and field use. The Drum measures 13 in

Crocodile hand garamut (drum) - YAMUK - Papua New Guinea 1970 Wood 45 cm GARAMUT - Carved Wooden Slit Gong Drum from the Yamuk of Papua New Guinea with mystical symbolic meaning. The drum was hand car

This is a very fine and rare carved wooden slit gong or drum with traditional barrel form of a hollowed out log with large slit on top with areas carved thinner for the tone of the drum. The Drum feat

**First Time At Auction** Indonesia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Dayak peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dark wooden slit drum, carved from a single piece of wood, with a zoomorphic form. O

Primitive Carved Yaka Slit Drum, Wooden Folk Art. A head with man's face is carved at the top of this hollowed ritual instrument with a rectangular cut opening on the front. Dimensions are 22.75 in h

A very rare carved wooden idiophone two rectangular slots carved into a barrel like drum form and two zoomorphic heads on a four legged form. Bangwa peoples, Cameroon, Africa. The drum measures 25.5 i

A very finely carved wooden slit gong or "Nkoko" with anthropomorphic face and a zoomorphic finial, signs of handling and wear. A excellent Yaka Nkoko divination drum from the Kasango Lunda Region, DR

A diminutive carved wooden container with anthropomorphic head, in the form of what appears to be a slit drum, though it was actually used to hold a magic substance / fetish material used in ritual di

Sepik Carved Wood Drum Beater, PNG. A hand-carved wooden beater mallet used to strike a large garamut slit-gong drum. Provenance: ex Michael Hamson. Size: 30'' x 3'' x 2'' (76 x 8 x 5 cm).

Latin America, Mexico, Hidalgo, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An abstract carved wooden festival mask with stylized facial features including ovoid eye slits for the wearer, a protruding cur

Mexican Carved Wooden Santo, 19th c., of St. Roch, patron saint of dogs, with original paint, now with a removable silver bead necklace, on an integral hexagonal base, H.- 16 1/4 in., W.- 8 1/2 in., D