Drum beater

Museum number:
2-1654
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Drum beater. Made of bone. Carved walrus head at one end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Percussion beaters
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 13 centimeters
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 beater, accession number 2-1654, described as Drum beater. Made of bone. Carved walrus head at one end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum beater, accession number 2-1654, described as Drum beater. Made of bone. Carved walrus head at one end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drum beater, accession number 2-1654, described as Drum beater. Made of bone. Carved walrus head at one end.

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