Drum

Museum number:
1-255349
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
Scott Loan #44 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3774
Description:
Rectangular wooden frame covered both sides by rawhide decorated with painted black triangles around perimeter. Rawhide handles at each end.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Collector:
Grandmother of Mrs. Georgia Scott Lind
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Context of use:
Used to accompany gambling songs (This form of drum was not indigenous).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 40 centimeters and length 61 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 1-255349, described as Rectangular wooden frame covered both sides by rawhide decorated with painted black triangles around perimeter. Rawhide handles at each end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 1-255349, described as Rectangular wooden frame covered both sides by rawhide decorated with painted black triangles around perimeter. Rawhide handles at each end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 1-255349, described as Rectangular wooden frame covered both sides by rawhide decorated with painted black triangles around perimeter. Rawhide handles at each end.

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