Hand Drum & Drumstick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A HOOP OF BENT WOOD WITH A GROOVE CUT IN OUTSIDE AROUND IT. THE HEAD IS STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP WHEN GREEN AND FORCED IN THE GROOVE BY A LONG CORD OF TWISTED SINEW WRAPPED MANY TIMES AROUND THE HEAD AND SHELL. THE HEAD IS BROKEN. DRUM STICK A CYLINDRICAL HANDLE OF WOOD AND BUCKSKIN. LT. RODGERS WAS MADE COMMANDER IN 1861. THE CHUKIES LIVE ON THE MAIN LAND, NOT ON THE ALEUT. IS. IT IS A QUESTION WHETHER THIS INSTRUMENT IS FROM THE CHUKIES OR ALEUTO."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Siberian Peninsula / Aleutian Islands, Siberia / Aleutian Islands, Russia / United States, North America / Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000321
label: USNM Number
content: E2512-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum / Drumstick