Drum And Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1976
label: Collection Date
content: 24 Aug 1937
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Drum cover of undecorated rawhide stretched over a cheese barrel hoop; tambourine type drum. Beater is straight wooden stick wrapped with cloth and string. Given George Ruhle by Joe Calf Child near Gliechen [sic], Alberta, August 24, 1937. Said to have belonged to donor's grandfather Omistaikopah, and said to have been beat "at the peace ceremonies when the Plains tribes made treaty with the redcoats in the '70s at place where monument commemorating same now stands." Note: Reference is to Treaty No. 7 between the Canadian government and the Blackfoot tribes at Blackfoot crossing in September, 1877 – jce [John C. Ewers] Lent to in-house exhibit: Plains Indian Art – Continuity and Change, Oct. 1987. Loan Returned Mar 1 1988. Loan SITES - Plains Art May 1 1989 Loan Returned Aug 8 1990".
label: Notes
content: Collector notes in accession: Drum of Onistaiokopah [sic] last chief of Siksikas. Given Geo. C. Ruhle by Joe Calf Child his grandson on August 24, 1937 near Gleichen, Alta.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Dec 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Gleichen (near), Alberta, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Siksika
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 323955
label: USNM Number
content: E419104A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum/Drumstick