Wooden Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "VASE SHAPED. CARVED FROM SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD. HEAD OF SKIN PEGGED ON." FROM CARD: "204,467 A. DRUM OF THE BALUBAS, BANTU STOCK. SHELL, VASESHAPE, CARVED FROM A BLOCK OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS ONE END AND HELD BY PEGS. HEIGHT, 22 INCHES. UPPER KASSAI RIVER, AFRICA. 204,467. COLLECTED, 1899, BY S. P. VERNER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bantu
label: Culture
content: Baluba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204467-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 56 cm
label: Diameter
content: 21.6 cm