Small wooden drum with lizardskin head; carved handle with lime-filled incised design; incised band of zig-zag motif rings drum.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), and S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986)