English: Tifa drum, collected in Cenderawasih Bay on the island of New Guinea.
Museum info:
Culture: Geelvink Bay cultures
Origin: Southeast Asia: Insular / Indonesia / Papua (Indonesia) / Papua (Indonesia): Regional / Cenderawasih Bay
date 1883
L 50 cm
Inventory number: RV-370-3897
Material: wood; skin (iguana)
Cut from one piece of wood, hourglass-shaped, top end longer bottom end short. At the fold of the hourglass a cut ring. The outside of the drum has incised zig-zag grooves, which are colored in white, red and black. Also a cut handle of which the top and bottom end is completely cut with ornaments. An iguana skin is stretched on the drum, which is still completely intact.
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