Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DRUM OF BALUBA NEGROES [sic], BANTU FAMILY. SHELL, CARVED FROM A TREE TRUNK, OUTSIDE DECORATED WITH CARVED DESIGNS; HEADS, OF SKIN. LUGS ON THE OUTSIDE FOR SUSPENSION. HEIGHT, 21 INCHES; DIAMETER, 12 INCHES. UPPER KASSAI RIVER, AFRICA. 204,319. COLLECTED BY S. P. VERNER."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 56 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bantu
label: Culture
content: Baluba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204319-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 53 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 30 cm