Temple (a) drum & (b) stand. a) Two-headed, barrel-shaped; Length 23.5 inches, head diameter 18 inches; skin heads gilted, floral designs; two ring handles for suspension; skin heads attached to body w/pegs,round headed metal rivets; b)red wooden stand for (a) height 21 inches, width 20.5 inches at base.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
January 1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Possibly a festival drum. See #162 in Japan Day By Day by Mondy Hickman and Peter Fetchko, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1977.