Haitian Drum
date: label: Date
content: 20th century
notes: label: Caption
content: Animal hide stretches across carved wood to form this tall drum made in Haiti. Thin ropes holding the hide are tautly secured to a wider rope tied around the drum’s middle. Wooden wedges fit snugly between ropes and drum. The drum tapers to a smaller cylinder at the bottom.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Cite As
content: Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995.0038.0002
objectType: label: Type
content: drum
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hide wood string
label: Dimensions
content: 23 3/4 × 15 3/8 × 14 9/16 in. (60.4 × 39 × 37 cm)