Hand Drum "We-We-To-Wah" (Of The Shoshones)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1876
name: label: Collector
content: William H. Danilson
label: Donor Name
content: William H. Danilson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS LIKE A SECTION OF A CHEESEBOX, THE JOINT IS LAPPED AND NAILED WITH IRON STAPLES. ONE PARCHMENT HEAD STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND NAILED WITH BRASS HEADED NAILS. THE SHELL IS DECORATED WITH FOUR ROSETTES HAVING SMALL HAWK BELLS IN THEIR CENTER. ON THE HEAD PAINTED IN COLORS IS AN OPEN TEPEE. ETC. THE DRUMSTICK IS RECTANGULAR AND WOUND WITH A STRIP OF BLUE FLANNEL AND A STRIP OF FELT. FOUR CORDS CROSSING AT THE BACK FORM THE HANDLE. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 4 BOTTOM RIGHT, PG. 684." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM (WEWETOWAH) OF THE BANNOCKS AND THE SHOSHONEANS. SHELL, A SECTION OF CHEESE BOX; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS ONE END AND NAILED. ON THE HEAD IS PAINTED A TENT. DRUMSTICK, RECTANGULAR. DIAMETER, 14 1/2 INCHES. FORT HALL, IDAHO. 22,301. COLLECTED BY WILLIAM H. DANILSON."
label: Notes
content: From Handbook of North American Indians photo caption: "Northern Shoshone-Bannock hand drum and drum stick. The painted hide is stretched over a circular machined and stapled wood frame,probably part of a cheese box. Water colors or red and brown depict a tepee [tipi], a meat-drying rack, a man smoking a pipe, a strongly recurved bow, 2 more pipes or pipe-tomahawks, a knife and scalp, and a highly stylized war bonnet [feather headdress]. A strip of blue stroud [cloth] has been tacked down around the circumference of the drum with a double row of brass tacks. Red and blue stroud and fringes of furred hide are affixed at the 4 points of attachment for hand thongs. The drum stick beater is rectangular machined wood stick, wrapped in blue stroud and partly covered in furred hide strips. Length of drum stick 16.5 cm; collected before 1876."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Ft. Hall (not certain), Idaho, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bannock
label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E22301-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum / Drumstick
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 36.8 cm