Long Drum (N. Dungo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Carl Steckelmann
notes: label: Notes
content: ~5 parts: Drum and 3-4 strips of leather, bundled together, which appear to have broken off of the drum.
label: Notes
content: From cards: "Hall 7, unit 11 Strips of animal hide which hold the drumheads in place were replaced in 1964 with fresh strips of cowhide; the strips removed are separately tagged 95,218-x. Clean and restored. Restoration record #24,10-10-63" "The shell is of a shape largest at the middle and one more than double the diameter of the other. made from the bark of the Sanga. On one side is a carved loop handle, below the handle is a bas-relief of one of the African wrought iron bells, the insigna of a Chief. Below this the shell is polygonial, 7 side in a spiral, around the body to a banded conical base. The upper head is of goat or antelope skin stretched over the large end without a hoop and is laced back and forth with a twisted thong of rawhide to a cap or head of rawhide drawn over the lower end. It is beaten with a short cylindrical stick drum No. 95,219. Used principally on festive occasions at dances to signalise a welcome, also at deaths; when a chief dies they are beaten incessantly for weeks and months."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Congo, Republic of, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Western Congo Tribes
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026257
label: USNM Number
content: E95218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 217.2 cm
label: Diameter - Head
content: 19.367 cm
label: Diameter - Middle
content: 23.178 cm
label: Diameter - Base
content: 9.53 cm