Wooden Rada Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1940 to 1950
name: label: Collector
content: Arthur Bechtel
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Verne C. Carter
notes: label: Notes
content: Cylindrical wooden body, slightly narrower at the bottom. Painted beige with streak of green on one side, and black near the bottom. Skin stretched over top and wrapped around a ring of wood. The ring is lashed with cord to wooden pegs that sick out from the body around the top. Piece of cord extends from one side (broken handle?)
label: Notes
content: John Homiak, NMNH Dept. of Anthropology, calls this a "Dahomean-style drum used in the Rada cult of Haitian Vodou... It appears to be the largest of the three-part Rada ensemble known as the "manman". In Vodou ceremonies, this drum is always played by the most accomplished drummer using one bare hand and a stick or "baguette." See accession file for more information.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marfranc, Jeremie, Haiti, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haitian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378680
label: USNM Number
content: E431896-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: ca. 99 cm
label: Width
content: ca. 35 cm
label: Height
content: ca. 29 cm