Bamboo Stamper "Ganbo" "Tikambo"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 May 1925
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: SPECIMEN IS A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT OF AFRICAN DERIVATION KNOWN VARIOUSLY AS "GANBO", "TI KANMBO", OR "TIKAMBO". HAROLD COURLANDER SUGGESTS THE NAME IS TAKE FROM THE LOANGO TERM FOR THE SAME MUSICAL DEVICE, "DIKAMBO." THE INSTRUMENT IS CUT FROM A SINGLE JOINT OF BAMBOO, OPEN AT ONE END AND CLOSED BY NATURAL JOINT MEMBRANE AT THE OTHER. IN CERTAIN PART OF HAITI THESE INSTRUMENTS, PLAYED IN AN ENSEMBLE OF FOUR OR FIVE, SUBSTITUTE FOR DRUMS. THE CLOSED END IS STRUCK ON THE GROUND WHILE THE HAND IS CLAPPED OVER THE OPEN END TO PRODUCE VARYING SOUNDS. DURING THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI THE GANBO ENJOYED REVIVED POPULARITY AS AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL CONTRIBUTED TO THE CLERIC- INSPIRED MANIA FOR DRUM BURNING (SEE H. COURLANDER 1960, THE DRUM AND THE HOE. p. 196-7). COLLECTOR OF THIS SPECIMEN REPORTS THAT IT WAS USED DURING RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES CONDUCTED IN A CAVE (VOUT L'EGLISE) WHERE IT WAS STRUCK ON STALAGMATIC DOMES.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cave At San Francisque (Near San Michel De L'Atalaye), Artibonite Province, Haiti, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haitian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 087443
label: USNM Number
content: E352324-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Musical Stamper