Drum

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
TEMP 2018.1181
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Accession number:
Acc.4364
Description:
Two carved wooden drums with hide skin, handle with round and square carved shapes containing faces and abstract patterns throughout. One drum has open bottom, the other skin on either end.
Donor:
Robert J. Kimball
Materials:
Hide (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1988
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole - open bottom drum— height 19.5 inches, whole - double skin drum— length 6.5 inches, whole - double skin drum— height 20 inches, whole - double skin drum— width 5.5 inches, whole - open bottom drum— length 6 inches, and whole - open bottom drum— width 5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number TEMP 2018.1181, described as Two carved wooden drums with hide skin, handle with round and square carved shapes containing faces and abstract patterns throughout. One drum has open bottom, the other skin on either end.

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