Collection place: Pago Pago, Tutuila Island, American Samoa / Function: 7.2 Sound Communication - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Slit drum, accession number 11-39502, described as “Slit-drum”; wood; handle one one end; hand-held, used extensively throughout Samoa to announce school hours and to call pigs; typically carried by school children in crook of left arm and beaten with a stick held in right hand; may also be beaten with two sticks at dances