Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Aug 1881
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Richard I. Dodge
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Richard I. Dodge
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 13TH AR, FIG. 318, P.282. SEE ALSO: OUR WILD INDIANS: THIRTY-THREE YEARS' PERSONAL EXPERIENCE...BY COL. R.I. DODGE, A.D. WORTHINGTON & CO., HARTFORD, CONN., 1882. "..FALL OF 1880..PRESENTED WITH DRUM..BODY IS THE ROUGH KEG, IN WHICH WAS TRANSPORTED TWO LARGE ROUND CHEESES. RAW SKIN STRETCHED OVER EACH END AND CONNECTED BY THONGS OF RAWHIDE, LACED..ANOTHER THONG AROUND THE KEG IS LOOPED ABOUT EACH TWO LACINGS, FORMS MEANS OF TIGHTENING THE DRUM-HEADS.. THIS IS THE ONLY INDIAN (DRUM) ... EVER SEEN WITH TWO HEADS. ITS CONSTRUCTOR EVIDENTLY MODELLED IT AFTER THE INFANTRY DRUM. INVENTORIED 1978." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DRUM OF THE CHEYENNES, ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. SHELL, OF STAVES, WITH THREE HOOPS; HEADS, OF SKIN STRETCHED OVER THE ENDS OF THE SHELL, WITHOUT HOOPS, AND LACED WITH THONG, THE ENDS WRAPPED AROUND THE DRUM AND KNOTTED TO THE LACING. HEIGHT,16 INCHES; DIAMETER, 16 INCHES. COLORADO. 58,610. COLLECTED BY R. J. DODGE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Colorado, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai), Southern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010586
label: USNM Number
content: E58610-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 41 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 41 cm