Drum

Museum number:
2-68257
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3883
Description:
Rattle, drum shaped; souvenir; two leather heads, with painted geometric designs, stretched over cardboard (?) cylinder and laced taut with leather thong; wood handle (broken) with leather wrappings. Diameter of drum head 5.5 cm, height of drum 7.5 cm, length 18 cm. Trading post souvenir.
Donor:
Stanley Bates
Collection place:
North America
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Geometric patterns and Rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 2-68257, described as Rattle, drum shaped; souvenir; two leather heads, with painted geometric designs, stretched over cardboard (?) cylinder and laced taut with leather thong; wood handle (broken) with leather wrappings. Diameter of drum head 5.5 cm, height of drum 7.5 cm, length 18 cm. Trading post souvenir.

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