Gong

Museum number:
5-15397
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015397
Accession number:
Acc.4288
Description:
Slit gong, wood, hand carved from solid tree limb, round, well-patinated; finial/stylized carved human head at top; lower two thirds hollowed out. Length 36.9 cm. Diameter (at base) 8.5 cm. Used by a diviner to announce his entry into a village.
Donor:
Dan Stuhlmueller
Collection place:
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa; Zaire; Kinshasa BaYaka
Culture or time period:
Ba Yaka
Collector:
Dan Stuhlmueller
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gongs
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Gong, accession number 5-15397, described as Slit gong, wood, hand carved from solid tree limb, round, well-patinated; finial/stylized carved human head at top; lower two thirds hollowed out. Length 36.9 cm. Diameter (at base) 8.5 cm. Used by a diviner to announce his entry into a village.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gong, accession number 5-15397, described as Slit gong, wood, hand carved from solid tree limb, round, well-patinated; finial/stylized carved human head at top; lower two thirds hollowed out. Length 36.9 cm. Diameter (at base) 8.5 cm. Used by a diviner to announce his entry into a village.

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