Object class: Drums (membranophones) / Culture or time period: Southwest North American cultures / Materials: Clay - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Male doll, accession number 2-71813, described as Pueblo Indian Drummer; male doll. H = 6.0”. Clay figure dressed in lavender cotton tunic . Has bright leggings & plastic “leather” high boots, cotton heaad band and sash, w/ a balsa wood, painted drum attached to left hand & drumsticks attached to right hand. Features molded & painted. Black yarn hair on own base.

Hearst Museum object titled Story teller figure, accession number 2-72158, described as ceramic story teller figure; seated woman with short legs spread wide. Holds 6 babies each holding a piece of pottery (jar, plate, wedding vase, etc.) in her encircling arms and a boy baby sits on each leg holding a drum. Skin is cream slip, hair, clothing and pots/drums painted with brown and red slip. Story teller has oval, open mouth and closed, lidded eyes, pinched nose. Boys wear a tied headband; girls without head decorations. Story teller has a topknot with a decorated headband across it and a cape decorated with a corn plant on her back. Mary E. Toya, potter.