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slit drum

Double-headed slit-drum made of wood; stands on openwork rectangular base. Narrow round-ended slit runs length of drum between two carved human heads. Elaborate scarification marks, facial features and coiffures incised with hot knife on heads to produce blackened lines. Pupils of eyes inlaid with perforated white glass ? beads.

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