Drum

Museum number:
5-7655
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2445
Description:
Drum with pegs; slender carved wood hollow body drum with stretched animal skin top; wooden pegs used to tighten skin top; H. 41 cm D. 17 cm
Donor:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Southwest Nigeria
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Drum, accession number 5-7655, described as Drum with pegs; slender carved wood hollow body drum with stretched animal skin top; wooden pegs used to tighten skin top; H. 41 cm D. 17 cmHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Drum, accession number 5-7655, described as Drum with pegs; slender carved wood hollow body drum with stretched animal skin top; wooden pegs used to tighten skin top; H. 41 cm D. 17 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 5-7655, described as Drum with pegs; slender carved wood hollow body drum with stretched animal skin top; wooden pegs used to tighten skin top; H. 41 cm D. 17 cm

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