Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. U S N Lewis Herndon
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. U S N Lewis Herndon
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHELL. A THIN HOLLOW WOODEN CYLINDER. NATURAL COLOR. TWO HEADS SAID TO BE OF OX HIDE, POSSIBLY PIG SKIN STRETCHED OVER SMALL ROUND FLESH HOOPS. LACING OF TWISTED CORD, LIKE HEMP, PASSED AROUND, TIGHTENING LOOPS LACED BACK AND FORTH OVER THE SHELL." FROM CARD: "DRUM OF THE AMAZON RIVER INDIANS. SHELL, A CYLINDER OF WOOD; HEADS, OF SKIN STRETCHED OVER FLESH-HOOPS; LACING, OF CORD PASSING AROUND AND BETWEEN-FLESH HOOPS. HEIGHT, 12 1/4 INCHES; DIAMETER, 7 3/4 INCHES . HUALLAYA, VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. 5,720. COLLECTED BY LEWIS HERNDON."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 85 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of South American Tribes".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Amazon River Basin, Brazil / Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quichua
label: Culture
content: Kechua
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00004
label: USNM Number
content: E5720-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 31.12 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 19.68 cm