Pegged Wooden Drum "Tumao"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Donald C. Butts
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. K W. Butts
notes: label: Notes
content: SPECIMEN IS ONE OF THE THREE-PART DRUM BATTERY USED BY BUSH NEGROES [sic] IN RELIGIOUS WORSHIP TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRITS OF THE ANCESTORS. THE "APINTI" IS THE TENOR DRUM USED TO PLAY THE MOST INTRICATE RHYTHMS, THE "TUMAO" SYNCOPATES, AND THE "AGIDA" GIVES THE METRONOME BEAT. (SEE P. DARK 1954 BUSH NEGRO ART, p. 24). THIS SPECIMEN IS MADE FROM A SINGLE HOLLOWED LENGTH OF LOG INCUT AT BASE TO FORM A SMALL PEDESTAL. SHELL HOLLOWED BY FIRE AND SCRAPING. DRUMHEAD SECURED BY CORD LASHINGS AND FIVE SMALL PEGS. THE OUTLINES OF TWO UNFINISHED CARVINGS APPEAR ON SIDES OF THE SHELL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Suriname, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Suriname Maroon
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 277656
label: USNM Number
content: E409786-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum