Drum And Drumstick (Pamponi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jan 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHELL A BENT HOOP 2 INCHES WIDE; ITS ENDS LAPPED AND STITCHED WITH A THONG. ONE HEAD OF TANNED BUCKSKIN STRETCHED OVER AND INSIDE THE HOOP AND STITCHED THROUGH LEATHER AND WOOD WITH A THONG. FOUR STRIPS CUT FROM EDGE OF LEATHER AND LEFT ATTACHED, ARE LACED TOGETHER IN THE MIDDLE TO FORM BY WINDING A STRIP OF BUCKSKIN AROUND THE END. THE FACE OF DRUM IS ORNAMENTED WITH A RUDE [SIC] HORSE, PAINTED RED. THE NATIVE NAME OF THE UTE HAND-DRUM IS "PAMPO'NI."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 64b) with the following remarks: "The drum is quite similar to another Unitah Ute specimen figured by Densmore (1922, pl. 6) ... 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: Notes
content: Allen Chronister identifies figure on drum as an elk, rather than a horse.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ute (Nuche), Northern, Uintah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00015
label: USNM Number
content: E17220-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum/Drumstick