Wooden Drum "Lali"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jul 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Us Consul Isaac M. Brower
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FIJIAN WAR DRUM ILLUS., IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, ART. 9; PL. 39, NO. 16; P. 48 (HOUGH, HIST. INVENTIONS)." From "Section of Musical Instruments" card: "Made of a dark red wood, excavated like a trough with its solid ends inside the sides three inches like the chime of a cask. Also it has a convex back or bottom like a cask, ornamented with [glass] beads inlaid in the wood, possibly a model of the great war drum, though some regard it as a real instrument." Drum has small paper printed number "34" glued on. It also has letters carved/incised into the side which appear to read: "NEWANI INEP" (all letter N's are backwards).
label: Notes
content: Used with small mallets or beaters, such drums or slit gongs were utilized during dances (meke) and in other occasions to vehicle messages, including in wartime. Here, glass beads and carved letters reflect on interactions with foreign voyagers and missionaries.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005306
label: USNM Number
content: E23949-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum