Drum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Drum (Badalgaga). Single-headed drum on cheese box foundation, rawhide head gathered with rawhide thong on back and further secured around hoop with rawhide lashing. Hide darkened overall. Rows of dark circles on head, many of which are obscured by scratches. 14.5" (37 cm). Records: Shell, a wooden hoop; head, of dog skin, stretched over the hoop; on the back the skin is gathered by a puckering string. Used in Mescal and other ceremonies. (L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026286
label: USNM Number
content: E165232-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum