Vodoun (Vodou) Drum "Boula" "Dundun"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jun 1942
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Alfred Metraux
notes: label: Notes
content: DRUM FROM A COLLECTION OF CULT OBJECTS CONFISCATED IN 1941 BY THE CATHOLIC CLERGY DURING A CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE VODOU RELIGIOUS PRACTICE. THIS SPECIMEN IS THE SMALLEST OF THE THREE- PART RADA BATTERY, THE "BULA" [or "Boula"] WHICH IS "WHIPPED" WITH TWO LONG STICKS, COWHIDE DRUMHEAD FASTENED WITH FIVE HARDWOOD PEGS SET INTO THE BODY OF THE DRUM AT AN ANGLE. See also E382567 and E382569
label: Notes
content: From card: "...LOANED TO RENWICK 4/9/82, RETURNED 6/1983..." [for exhibit in "Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual" at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1982-83]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 163278
label: USNM Number
content: E382566-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum