Hand drum (Damaru); hourglass-shaped; parts of two human calvaria joined together by wooden disk decorated by miniature skulls; green leather drum heads; diameter 5.25 inches; trailer of silk tassels, beads, etc.; length 29 inches
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford, Harold Heath, Ida Shelley, Kathleen Morehouse, and Rudolph Skarda
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Possibly Tibet
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones) and Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1954, 1964, and September 28, 1955
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1972-1973 #91: Southeast Asian Studies Department (UC Berkeley) (May 1, 1973–May 2, 1973), S1973-1974 #60: Southeast Asian Studies Department (UC Berkeley) (March 1, 1974–March 5, 1974), S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975), S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975), S1975-1976 #97: Kenneth Versand (May 16, 1976–May 16, 1976), and S1987-1988 #4: Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion (July 15, 1987–September 21, 1987)