Drum and Drumstick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SKIN OVER BENT WOOD HOOP; NO WIRE OR NAILS USED IN CONSTRUCTION; THIN CIRCLE OF GREEN PAINT ON FACE ONLY DECORATION. NEG. NO. 38,709-A." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE COMANCHES, SHOSHONEAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF BENT WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND STITCHED THROUGH A LINE OF HOLES AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE HOOP. THE EDGE OF THE SKIN IS BENT OVER THE BACK OF THE HOOP AND LASHED. THONGS STRETCHED ACROSS FROM SIDE TO SIDE FORM THE HANDLE. ON THE HEAD IS PAINTED A RING IN GREEN. DIAMETER, 15 INCHES. SOUTHERN TEXAS. 6,914. COLLECTED, 1868, BY EDWARD PALMER." FROM 2ND CARD: "SHELL A HOOP OF THIN WOOD FOUR INCHES WIDE BENT, SCARFED AND STITCHED TOGETHER WITH A THONG. ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND STITCHED THROUGH AND THROUGH A LINE OF HOLES MADE IN MIDDLE OF HOOP. THE EDGE OF HEAD IS BEND OVER BACK EDGE OF HOOP AND LACED TO THE STITCHES IN THE MIDDLE. OTHER THONGS ARE LACED ACROSS THE BACK OF HOOP FROM SIDE TO SIDE HALF CROSSING AT RIGHT ANGLES, FORMING A HANDLE. A LARGE GREEN RING IS PAINTED ON FACE OF HEAD. DRUM STICK MISSING."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, South, Texas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001317
label: USNM Number
content: E6914-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum / Drumstick
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 38 cm