I acquired this Chokwe drum from an old London collection in the 1980s. It had been made into a lamp base as it was missing its original membranes. A beautiful object of exceptional quality.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brincard, Marie-Thérèse. Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments. New York: The

American Federation of Arts, 1989, p. 110.

Museu De Angola: Colecção Etnográfica. Luanda: Museu de Angola, 1955, fig. 75.

Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy I. Nooter. African Art in American Collections. Washington:

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, p. 554, fig. 1516.

Tribal Art, Tuesday 12 December 1989, Christie’s (South Kensington, 1989), lot 223.