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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4568082, member: 2844"]I think your Moko drum could have been made in Gresik, East Java. Apparently Mokos were made from the late 19th century, the same period of the revival of Gresik bronze religious statues and figurines.</p><p>Gresik is still a bronze casting centre, and nearly all recent Javanese religious bronze replicas are made there. </p><p>It is conceivable that your Moko drum was made there too, fairly recently. The finish is rather odd, but the Gresik bronze makers experiment quite a lot with colours.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Michael Backman's site:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Such drums were manufactured at Gresik in East Java from the late 19th century and were used on the Eastern Indonesian island of Alor to settle marriage-alliance gift exchanges and to be traded as currency for agricultural produce. Hundreds of <i>mokos</i> were introduced to Alor mostly by Bugis traders and the sudden influx proved inflationary and destabilising to the ‘currency’ and to the wider Alor economy. The Dutch authorities forbade the use of <i>mokos</i> as a general currency. They allowed tax payments to be settled with <i>mokos</i> however to try to draw as many <i>mokos</i> out of circulation as possible (Taylor & Aragon, 1991, p. 218). <i>Mokos</i> were occasionally used on Alor as musical instruments at important events. Their tops were struck with the palm of the hand."</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/flores-javanese-kettle-currency-drum-moko/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/flores-javanese-kettle-currency-drum-moko/" rel="nofollow">https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/flores-javanese-kettle-currency-drum-moko/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one looks like a carbon copy of yours, so it is probably by the same maker:</p><p><a href="https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/13254361-rare-bronze-drum-moko-drum-alor-lesser-sunda-islands-indonesia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/13254361-rare-bronze-drum-moko-drum-alor-lesser-sunda-islands-indonesia" rel="nofollow">https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/13254361-rare-bronze-drum-moko-drum-alor-lesser-sunda-islands-indonesia</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4568082, member: 2844"]I think your Moko drum could have been made in Gresik, East Java. Apparently Mokos were made from the late 19th century, the same period of the revival of Gresik bronze religious statues and figurines. Gresik is still a bronze casting centre, and nearly all recent Javanese religious bronze replicas are made there. It is conceivable that your Moko drum was made there too, fairly recently. The finish is rather odd, but the Gresik bronze makers experiment quite a lot with colours. From Michael Backman's site: "Such drums were manufactured at Gresik in East Java from the late 19th century and were used on the Eastern Indonesian island of Alor to settle marriage-alliance gift exchanges and to be traded as currency for agricultural produce. Hundreds of [I]mokos[/I] were introduced to Alor mostly by Bugis traders and the sudden influx proved inflationary and destabilising to the ‘currency’ and to the wider Alor economy. The Dutch authorities forbade the use of [I]mokos[/I] as a general currency. They allowed tax payments to be settled with [I]mokos[/I] however to try to draw as many [I]mokos[/I] out of circulation as possible (Taylor & Aragon, 1991, p. 218). [I]Mokos[/I] were occasionally used on Alor as musical instruments at important events. Their tops were struck with the palm of the hand." [URL]https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/flores-javanese-kettle-currency-drum-moko/[/URL] This one looks like a carbon copy of yours, so it is probably by the same maker: [URL]https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/13254361-rare-bronze-drum-moko-drum-alor-lesser-sunda-islands-indonesia[/URL][/QUOTE]
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