Hand Drum "Ke'-L-Yau, Kelgaut"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE 9TH AR, FIG. 383, P. 385. ILLUS. USNM REPT, 1896; FIG. 200, P. 561. OF THE ESKIMAUAN FAMILY. SHELL, AN OVAL HOOP OF BENT WOOD, THE ENDS HELD BY AN IVORY "FISH PLATE"; HEAD, OF INTESTINES, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND FORCED INTO A GROOVE ON THE OUTSIDE AND HELD IN PLACE BY A CORD OF SINEW. HANDLE, A WALRUS TUSK NOTCHED OVER THE JOINT OF THE HOOP. A HUMAN FACE IS CARVED ON THE OUTSIDE. PLAYED WITH A BONE OR IVORY DRUMSTICK STRIKING THE EDGE OF THE HOOP."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Sep 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E56741-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum