"Mide" Drum And Drumstick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shell hollowed out from a log of wood, furnished with a rim, hoop around the lower edge; head of skin is held on by means of a wooden hoop covered with cloth. In use the drum is filled about two-thirds full of water, or to the height of a hole closed with a peg in the body of the drum. Ornamented with Mide figures in blue and red. The drumstick is a curved piece of hickory wood with buckskin covering at the point. Photos and description of this drum in BAE Bulletin 45, plates 1 and 2, and BAE Bulletin 86, plate 38. Loaned to the Div. of Musical Instruments 9/30/77. Loan returned 11/14/77."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055524
label: USNM Number
content: E278113-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum/Drumstick