Rada Drum, "Boula", for Vodou ceremonies
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1928 to 1934
name: label: Collector
content: Cmdr. L. C. Frost
label: Donor Name
content: Andrew Hamilton
notes: label: Notes
content: Drum for Vodou ceremonies. Of the three-part Rada battery (catalog numbers E433013- 433015) this is the smallest drum, the "boula". Body is carved from one piece of hollowed out wood, wider at the top and very narrow at the bottom. Painted white with red and green bands near the bottom. Skin stretched over the top, with 5 holes for the pegs. 5 wooden pegs painted yellow or red at the wider end. Not fully “headed”, i.e. missing the typical braided sisal rope used to affix and tighten the drum head. This rope is typically wound around the head of the drum and interlaced with the wooden pegs that also secures the drumhead (see “Life in a Haitian Valley”, 1934 Melville and Frances Herskovits. This film contains sequences of the “heading” of rada drums. Human Studies Film Archives, HSFA 77.1.2)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: 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: 2060429
label: USNM Number
content: E433013-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 50.5 cm
label: Maximum Width
content: ca. 30 cm
label: Diameter - Head
content: 19 cm