Banjo played by Lew Snowden
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870s
notes: label: Description
content: Banjo played by Lew Snowden. Snowden was a member of the Snowden Family Band, an ensemble of Black farmers who performed across rural Ohio from the 1850s to the early 1920s. Banjo rim interior is wood with a nickel exterior. Custom engraving of "L.D. Snowden" on proper right side of the top of the rim. Wood neck and headstock. Skin head attached to rim with metal tension hoop and 10 brackets and screws. Likely was produced by the Buckbee company around 1870s.
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Banjos
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks from the Snowden Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0122.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0122
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0122.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banjo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: skin (head material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (tailpiece material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 12 in x 3 1/2 in; 85.09 cm x 30.48 cm x 8.89 cm