Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Apr 2001
label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: J. P. Phillips
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Patricia Phillips
notes: label: Notes
content: Long wooden drum, tapered at the bottom. Skin attached with strips of rattan wrapped around notches in the wood.
label: Notes
content: Note that although the collector says that he purchased the drum at a stall in the market in Baguio, Dr. Patricia Afable, Research Associate in the SI Asian Cultural History Program, says that "from the measurements of the drum, I am pretty sure it is from the southern Cordillera, from the Ibaloy-Kankanaey-Kallahan/Kalanguya areas of Benguet, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya provinces." She goes on to say that "the instrument is called 'solibao' in both languages. It is part of a small orchestra consisting of 2 solibao, 2 gongs, and a pair of iron clappers, brought together to accompany dancing during feasts to honor ancestors. In the home areas, these instruments are never played outside of ritual contexts that involve animal offerings; however, people in the cities today will often assemble the orchestra and dancers for secular celebrations with outsiders."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baguio, Mountain Province - Benguet Subprovince, Luzon, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kalinga
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390917
label: USNM Number
content: E431418-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 105 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Object, Widest Point
content: ca 26 cm
label: Minimum Diameter - Object, Bottom
content: 11 cm