NGOMA LUNGUNDU. Eine Afrikanische Bundeslade.
Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia V: 1952. 192 pages, 2 full-page photographs of the drum. Item #3099
The subject of a 2008 History Channel special, the ngoma lungundu, a wooden ceremonial drum that had been covered by skin, was searched for and found in the almost inaccessible Harare Museum of Human Science on the Zimbabwe/South African border. Many of the residents of the area, the Lemba people, carry DNA found only in descendants of the Israelite "cohen" priestly caste, and claim their heritage as one of the "lost tribes of Israel". The drum, at first thought perhaps to be the Ark of the Covenant, bears much similarity to wooden objects and receptacles uncovered in archaeological digs in what is now Jordan, Egypt and Israel. Alas, recent carbon dating puts its date at about 1400 A.D.
This is the only study extant of this wondrous object. The edition is thought to have been only 500 copies. This copy is new and unopened, with many pages uncut at the top.
Price: $375.00