Musical Instrument: Drumstick & Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Drum and drumstick (Badalgaga). Single-headed drum stretched over cheese box foundation, head of rawhide secured with twine decorated with dark circle in center. Cylindrical wooden stick with ball head at each end. 16" (41 cm); 12.25" (31 cm). Records: Head of cow skin. Used in Mescal Ceremony. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152900-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum/Drumstick