Drum And Drumstick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Apr 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Gustave (Gus) H. Beaulieu
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THERE APPEARS TO BE AN ERROR IN THE CARD CATALOG AND LEDGER LISTING SHOWING "MICHIGAN" AS LOCALE. THE ACCESSION RECORD INDICATES THE PROVENIENCE IS THE WHITE EARTH RESERVATION OF MINNESOTA. FROM CARD: "MEDICINE DRUM MADE OF WOOD, HEAD OF DEER SKIN. *OLD PRINTED LABEL INDICATES WHITE EARTH RES. INVENTORIED 1977." FROM CARD: "204,969 A. MEDICINE DRUM (GA NO JO O) OF THE OBJIBWA INDIANS, ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. SHELL, A LOG OF WOOD, WITH WOODEN BOTTOM MADE WATER-TIGHT WITH GUM; HEAD, OF TANNED DEERSKIN FASTENED TO A HOOP. TIGHTENING HOOP, FLAT. LACING, NONE. WATER IS PLACED IN THE SHELL TO A DEPTH OF TWO OR THREE INCHES AND THE HEAD IS WET BEFORE PLAYING. DRUMSTICK IN SHAPE OF MALLET. HEIGHT, 16 1/8 INCHES. WHITE EARTH RESERVATION, MINNESOTA. 204,969. COLLECTED, 1900, BY G. H. BEAULIEU."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036315
label: USNM Number
content: E204969-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum/Drumstick
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 40.957 cm