Frame Drum
Object type: Frame Drum
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: Native American (Sioux)
Artist: Thunder Elk
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: Native American (Sioux)
Date: ca. 1887
Medium: wood, leather, sinew; metal wire; pigment
Dimensions: Drum: 13 5/8 × 13 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (34.6 × 34.3 × 4.8 cm)
Beater: 12 3/4 × 3/4 × 3/4 in. (32.4 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm)
Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum
Geography:    Dakotas United States  
Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession year: 1889