Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. RECTANGULAR CARVED WOODEN DRUM HAS CYLINDRICAL HANDLE AT SHORT END. BASE OF HANDLE IN THE FRONT HAS A SEMI-CIRCULAR NOTCH. OTHER END HAS CARVED HEAD AS FINIAL. ROUND HEAD HAS HIGH SMOOTH HAIRSTYLE THAT JUTS OUT IN THE BACK. CENTER OF HAIRLINE IN THE FRONT HAS SMALL ROUND HOLE. CARVED FEATURES INCLUDE ALMOND-SHAPED EYES W/ LONG SLITS, TRIANGULAR NOSE, AND SMALL, RECTANGULAR HOLLOW MOUTH. BRIGHT ORANGE PIGMENT/PAINT OUTLINES NOSE AND EYES, HAIRLINE, AND HANDLE. DRUM SURFACE IS COVERED WITH STRETCHED LEATHER COVER, NAILED TO BODY. SURFACE HAS ROW OF TINY PRICKED HOLES BEGINNING MIDWAY IN THE CENTER AND ENDING NEAR EDGE. ONE SURFACE CORNER HAS ROUND HOLE. DRUM ALSO HAS NAILS IN NECK AND BASE. LABELS "AFRICAN, S.135.77" AND "5200." CONDITION: HOLES AND SOME LOSSES AROUND HANDLE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428133-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 12 cm