FANG/KELE, Gabon. - Lot 93

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FANG/KELE, Gabon. - Lot 93
FANG/KELE, Gabon. Wood, skin, fiber. Ngombi" bowed harp consisting of a skin-covered rectangular resonance box with a curved neck pierced with eight holes. Second half of the 19th century. 59 x 63 cm. (cracks, slight abrasions, playing strings missing). Note: Only a few examples can be found in museum and private collections. One example is the harp in the Crosby Brown collection of musical instruments, 1889, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Another example is the harp in the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac collection (71.1878.56.1). Provenance: MOEVUS Loches collection. By descent. Part of a group of objects found in an attic in Loches that had not been moved for over a century. Expert : Christian NJIENSI
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