Drum model

Museum number:
2-2127
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Red-stained wood hoop, gut "skin." Handle is red-stained armless wood figurine with incised eyes and crescent mouth, wood pegs inserted in slit in chest.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 13.8 centimeters and length 10.8 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. 2-4606 for same figure carved as handle. Cf. The Far North, Collins, deLaguna et al, #162 for shaman's drum with spirit figure handle.
Loans:
S1972-1973 #60: Fowler Museum of Cultural History (UC Los Angeles) (March 9, 1973–June 19, 1973)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum model, accession number 2-2127, described as Red-stained wood hoop, gut "skin." Handle is red-stained armless wood figurine with incised eyes and crescent mouth, wood pegs inserted in slit in chest.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum model, accession number 2-2127, described as Red-stained wood hoop, gut "skin." Handle is red-stained armless wood figurine with incised eyes and crescent mouth, wood pegs inserted in slit in chest.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum model, accession number 2-2127, described as Red-stained wood hoop, gut "skin." Handle is red-stained armless wood figurine with incised eyes and crescent mouth, wood pegs inserted in slit in chest.

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