Indigenous Art

U.N. New York, Page 2006.1 (BL-2)

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For this series of stamps of indigenous art, the three U.N. post office location issued sheets of six unique stamps each, for a total of eighteen stamps. They celebrate indigenous cultures, cultural heritage, and the rights of indigenous peoples. This set issued in 2006 highlights musical instruments from North Africa.

The first stamp in this sheet of six shows a carved wooden ceremonial tribal drum from the Ivory Coast. It’s comical looking with legs and udders and other decorations. The second one on the top row is double-headed drum from Tunisia. The sides are painted with calligrams from Arabic script. The third is a Moroccan stringed instruments made in the Medina of Tangier.

The first stamp on the second row shows a Sudanese kettledrum known as a Nihass from abour five hundred years ago. It was used in to announce wars and other tragedies, or the death of a chief. Next to that is a lamellophones from Cameroon, a tongued instrument like a Jew harp, but with more keys. The last stamp shows an instrument from the Republic of the Congo, an anthropomorphic harp by Mangbetu people. At the top of it is a carved head.

For more of these stamps depicting indigenous musical instruments from Africa, see the Geneva (UNG-2006.1) and the Vienna (UNV-2006.1) albums. There are also stamps in this album of indigenous art from Europe and South America.

Note

The indigenous art stamps are interesting, but I like the stamps of endangered species better – especially when they show pictures of birds. For the four here, there aren’t any bird stamps. Instead, these show a snake, a lizard and frogs. They’re important too, but I don’t like them on stamps.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Indigenous Art

1.1	✓	897a	Drum - Côte d’Ivoire	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	897b	Double Drum - Tunesia	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	897c	Stringed instruments - Morocco	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	897d	Drum - Sudan	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	897e	Musical instrument - Cameroon	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	897f	Harp - Congo	37 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor

Endangered Species

3.1	✓	908	Golden Mantella	39 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	910	Peruvian Rainbow Boa	39 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	909	Panther Chameleon	39 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	911	Dyeing Poison Frog	39 (mar 2006) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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