Figure

Museum number:
5-2207
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050002207
Alternate number:
B-305 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1484
Description:
Black figure of drummer; inflexed position on a pedestal. Per inventory 6/13/12, found with a bag of unnumbered fragments.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Congo; tribe unknown
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1943-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
December 19, 1961
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 35.6 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, V-18-4. Collected at Leopoldville, 1943-44. Exhibited at Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin 1949 & 1956, R. H. Lowie Museum 1960.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Figure, accession number 5-2207, described as Black figure of drummer; inflexed position on a pedestal. Per inventory 6/13/12, found with a bag of unnumbered fragments.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Figure, accession number 5-2207, described as Black figure of drummer; inflexed position on a pedestal. Per inventory 6/13/12, found with a bag of unnumbered fragments.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-2207, described as Black figure of drummer; inflexed position on a pedestal. Per inventory 6/13/12, found with a bag of unnumbered fragments.

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