Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32570
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Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts man playing drums, surrounded by a group of people. Hoefler's original description: "Belgian Congo. The Drums. Broadcasting in the Forest. Without drums these little folks would find life very uninteresting for the drums supply them with entertainment and also with news from other villages. By the means of drums they send and receive messages. It is their telegraph and newspaper. By means of the drums they call the clans to war, to the feasts of meat when an elephant has been called, to the ceremonial moon dances and by them they tell of strangers who are in the forest."
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Belgian Congo
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1928-1929
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives and Drums (membranophones)
Production date:
1928-1929
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32570, described as 8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts man playing drums, surrounded by a group of people. Hoefler's original description: "Belgian Congo. The Drums. Broadcasting in the Forest. Without drums these little folks would find life very uninteresting for the drums supply them with entertainment and also with news from other villages. By the means of drums they send and receive messages. It is their telegraph and newspaper. By means of the drums they call the clans to war, to the feasts of meat when an elephant has been called, to the ceremonial moon dances and by them they tell of strangers who are in the forest."

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