Drum

Museum number:
11-914
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21110000914
Accession number:
Acc.18
Description:
Wooden drum covered with snakeskin
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
New Guinea, Melanesia
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 11-914, described as Wooden drum covered with snakeskin
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 11-914, described as Wooden drum covered with snakeskin

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