A Gabon drummer figure

A Gabon drummer figure
standing with his right leg raised and with his foot on the heel rail of the drum, his hands placed on the hide skin of the solid drum, with inset carved bone teeth and eyes, with a nailed hide coiffure,
66cm high, on a base.

Provenance
A civil engineer attached to the Spanish Delegation to Rio Muni until 1933.
Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.
Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 129.