Hand drum with seal handle
date: label: Date created
content: 1962
name: label: Culture/People
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: Artist/Maker
content: Tom Sunny (Tony Sonny), Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Tom Sunny (Tony Sonny), Yup'ik (Yupik)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1962; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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place: label: Place
content: Nightmute; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
label: Archipelago
content: Bering Sea Islands
label: Island Name
content: Nelson Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: See related items
content: Music and Sound
label: On View
content: NMAI, Washington DC: Outside Rasmuson Theater, Music and Dance
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/9845
label: Barcode
content: 259845.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Music and Sound
label: Indigenous Term
content: cauyaq
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Hand drum with seal handle
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, animal gut/intestines , feather/feathers, twine/string, wool (unspun), vegetal dye/dyes
label: Techniques
content: Carved, stretched, stitched, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 10 x 55.8 cm