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Start Over Object class Carvings (visual works) Collection place North America Function 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 2-1611, described as Large drum used in ceremonies. Head probably seal or walrus bladder. Hoop frame, rawhide lashing. Carved wood handle with incised linear markings.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 2-2968, described as With hoop frame, carved wood handle, bladderskin (?) head with sinew binding.
Hearst Museum object titled Drum and drumstick, accession number 2-66139a,b, described as a) Drum. Single head, rawhide over wood hoop frame. Strips of dyed red and blue cotton cloth laced around eges, short strips of of same cloth are tied to framework of the underside; blue glass crow beads on three strips. b) Carved wood drumstick.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drum and drumstick, accession number 2-71378a,b, described as (a) Drum: two-headed, painted on one side with a bear and four bear claws, in black, dull red, and turquoise. Skin heads laced over wood (cottonwood?). Rawhide handle. (b) Drum stick: padded buckskin on end of a partially carved stick.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drum beater, accession number 2-1654, described as Drum beater. Made of bone. Carved walrus head at one end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drum frame, accession number 2-6486, described as With carved ivory walrus handle. Head missing. Handle is composite of polar bear with pinnedin dangling separately carved human legs.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drumstick, accession number 2-66140, described as Wood with carved zoomorphic head, features stained, cotton string wrapped around handle, metal nail in handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drumstick, accession number 2-71378b, described as (b) Drum stick: padded buckskin on end of a partially carved stick.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Flageolet, accession number 1-9249, described as Carved cane flageolet, 3 stops.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Noisemaker, accession number 3-29025a, described as Musical instrument. Noisemaker, wood, carved in the shape of a fish, body hollow. Head and tail smoothly finished and varnished with painted features. Center body area is ridged, rasp can be rubbed across to make sound. A--fish, lg:32.5cm; B--rasp, lg: 12.7cm

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