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Divination Slit Gong (Nkoko Ngombo)

Yaka, 1800-1899

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Yaka

Divination Slit Gong (Nkoko Ngombo)

Yaka, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Wood, 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1954.145.71
In the form of a slit gong
Lamp, Frederick, "African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art," African Arts, November 1983, vol. XVII, no. 1, fig. 10.
Pemberton, John III, ed., Insight and Artistry in African Divination, Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000, pp 116-132.

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