Wooden Drum (Mkul)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""A war drum or rattle called Nkul (pl. minkul). In hollowing this out they use an instrument which I will call an adze. For this work they remove it from its handle and turn it into a chisel by giving it a straight handle. When beaten for war, I am told, this drum is struck only in the middle but at other times the player strikes for a little time the center and then near the ends, thus giving alternately a resonant beat and a rattling sound.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gabon River, Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E95157-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 62.2 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 26.04 cm
label: Length - Drum Sticks
content: 32.38 cm
label: Diameter - Drum Sticks
content: 1.91 cm