Gong "mokengue"

Gabon, Tsogho

Provenance	Taille	Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Ruth & Marc Franklin, San Francisco, USA Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA (1989) Reynold Kerr, New York, USA (2010)	H: 44 cm	Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

iron, wood, round handle, carved with an anthropomorphic head with tribe-typical facial features, pierced neck, dam., crack, traces of corrosion and abrasion, base.
This type of gong was used in a Tsogho men's initiation association called "evovi" ("judges"). The carved head is thought to represent "kombe", the sun and supreme judge.

Perrois, Louis, L'Esprit de la foret, Terres du Gabon, Paris 1997, p. 199 Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, Washington D.C. 1989, p. 141, ill. 90 Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! University of California 1999, p. 282, ill. 52

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