Ritual gong "mokenge"

Gabon, Tsogho

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn Switzerland René Rickli, Olten, Switzerland	H: 17.3 inch	sold

iron, wood, missing parts (gong corpus), base

This gong type is said to be used in the Tsogho men's initiation association called "evovi". It has been suggested that it was struck when resolving judicial matters.

Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, New York 1989, p. 139, ill. 85

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