Lizard skin

Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this lizard skin, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.

Jackson fieldnotes: Lizard skin used for drums. Skin of a lizard called wablm. Used on drums. To stretch it out first moisten with water. Probably manufactured by men. Used by men for ceremonial occasions only. Type of lizard skin used may be dragon lizard (Goniocephalus higrigularis, meyer) = kwom.
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Object detail

Media/Materials
Lizard skin.
Measurements
255 x 155 x 145mm - LxWxD of whole object [verified].
Production place
Lower Kaironk Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/184

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