Brass Drum and Two Sticks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Phra Pin Klao
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ONE PIECE SHELL OF BEATEN BRASS, SOMEWHAT HOURGLASS SHAPED, SINGLE HEAD FLAT ORNAMENTED WITH CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF DESIGNS, AND NEAR THE EDGES FOUR SMALL FROG FIGURES IN RELIEF AT EQUAL DISTANCES. STICKS ARE OF ROSEWOOD, LOWER ENDS TIPPED WITH IVORY FERRULES. TAPERED CYLINDRICAL HEADS WRAPPED WITH CORD. HAWLEY LEFT A REFER. TO SOME OTHER TYPES: CHINESE "CHU-KA-KU", "KYEE ZOE OF HILL KNEAS; & TUNG-KU, CHINESE" WHEN HAWLEY STUDIED THE MUSICAL INST. IN THE 1920S HE DID NOT FIND THIS BECAUSE ONLY HAD THE LATER NO."
label: Notes
content: GONG ITSELF MISSING--ONLY TWO DRUM STICKS FOUND (2/6/74). INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 125
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 286521
label: USNM Number
content: E70-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum / Drumstick
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36.8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Length - Sticks
content: 50.17 cm