Drum

Museum number:
5-16419
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016419
Alternate number:
B-1189 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Yaka diviner’s drum, carved wood; male human head at one end; hole drilled at top of head. Purchased from Bodes & Bode of the Hague Per inventory 6/13/12, has a mount.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa, Congo/Cameroon, Yaka
Culture or time period:
Ba Yaka
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 22.5 centimeters and width 3.5 centimeters
Comment:
Illustrated: Bascom, 1973:103. PAHMA Storage Loc: W 2-Bascom-4
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Drum, accession number 5-16419, described as Yaka diviner’s drum, carved wood; male human head at one end; hole drilled at top of head. Purchased from Bodes & Bode of the Hague Per inventory 6/13/12, has a mount.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Drum, accession number 5-16419, described as Yaka diviner’s drum, carved wood; male human head at one end; hole drilled at top of head. Purchased from Bodes & Bode of the Hague Per inventory 6/13/12, has a mount.

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