Drum "Pahu"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. State Department
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shell hollowed from a log of Koa wood. The base is carved into ten festoons or open work loops. One head of pigskin [sic] stretched over the open end of shell without a hoop. Holes are made in edge of head and the lacing passed from them up and down the shell to the loops at base. Illus. in Bulletin 136, USNM, Pl. 23-b, p. 136." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Drum (Pahu) of the Hawaiians. Shell, hollowed from a section of koa wood; base, carved in open work; head, of pigskin [sic], stretched over the open end. From holes in the edges lacing passes back and forth to the loops in the base. Height, 17 1/2 inches. Hawaii. From U.S. State Department."
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005. Identified by Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler as wood and sharkskin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 017038
label: USNM Number
content: E93607-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum