Drum

Museum number:
5-5323
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
75 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2067
Description:
Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.
Donor:
Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
Summer 1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 78 centimeters
Comment:
Original # on object is “75”. Not a Bascom number. Appears to be a dealer number. Murdock 32:18 Illustrated: Bascom, African Arts, 1967. NOTE: Feet broken. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez,Sp. 2. Feet broken.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #58: KQED Television (December 26, 1968–December 30, 1968), S1968-1969 #60: KQED Television (January 9, 1969–January 13, 1969), and S1981-1982 #62: Kaiser (April 30, 1982–July 12, 1982)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Drum, accession number 5-5323, described as Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Drum, accession number 5-5323, described as Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Drum, accession number 5-5323, described as Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Drum, accession number 5-5323, described as Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 5-5323, described as Wooden drum. Lower sides relief-carved with snakes, birds, animals, humans, etc. Drum supported by 2 carved, bent, human legs. Skin drum head attached to pegs by netteing.

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