Hand Drum (We-We-To-Wah)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN FOR #E022007-27, ENTERED IN THE LEDGER ONLY AS "NO. WYOMING" BUT RECORDED VARIOUSLY IN THE CARD CATALOG AS "NORTHERN WYOMING," "WIND RIVER," OR "WIND RIVER AGENCY." NOTES IN THE ACCESSION FILE BY NEIL M. JUDD (AUGUST 1915) STATE, "NEITHER THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL NOR THE LOCALITIES FROM WHICH IT CAME IS INDICATED." FROM CARD: "SHELL A HOOP OF THIN WOOD, THE SIDES? LAPPED AND LAPPED OVER HEAD OF TANNED DEER SKIN STRETCHED OVER AND INSIDE THE HOOP AND STITCHED THROUGH AND THROUGH THE FACE IS PAINTED RED. TWO CORDS OF TWISTED SKIN CROSSING AT THE BACK DIAGONALLY FORMS THE HANDLE. WHEN USED THE HEAD IS WARMED OVER A FIRE. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 9 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM (WEWETOWAH) OF THE SHOSHONEANS. SHELL, A HOOP OF BENT WOOD, JOINTS LASHED; HEAD, OF DEERSKIN, STRETCHED ACROSS AND COVERING THE HOOP OUTSIDE, AND HELD BY STITCHES THROUGH THE LEATHER AND THE HOOP. OUTER FACE PAINTED RED. BEFORE USING THE HEAD IS WARMED OVER A FIRE. DIAMETER, 17 INCHES. WIND RIVER, NORTH WYOMING. 22,013. COLLECTED BY J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 63a) with the following remarks: "Drums are reported for those Numic peoples who early adopted horses and other Plains elements, ie. the Ute, and the Northern and Eastern Shoshoni. Those who did not adopt horses, such as the Southern Paiute, the Gosiute, and the Western Shoshoni, apparently lacked drums during the aboriginal period (Stewart, 1942:295; Steward, 1943:278). Some Northern Paiute groups, however, may have acquired drums from Plateau groups to the north (Kelly, 1932:195)." p. 72
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wind River (not certain), Wyoming Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Eastern, Wind River
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004260
label: USNM Number
content: E22013-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 43 cm