Drum Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A WOODEN DRUM STICK."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/15 , retrieved 12-17-2019: This drum stick is of the type that was and still is most common in the Central and Eastern Arctic. It is fashioned from single piece of wood, rounded at the end used for striking the drum and squared where it was grasped in the hand. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/66: Drums made from skins of newborn caribou stretched over wood hoops and struck with a drumstick are used to accompany singing and dancing. Drumsticks used in the Western Arctic normally are long wands made from wood and are used by striking the hoop and skin simultaneously. Drumsticks used in the Central and Eastern Arctic are usually shorter and heavier, and are used by striking the hoop only.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E1631-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drumstick