Drum-Supports
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Jan 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED FOR SUPPORTING THE DRUM IN THE CROW DANCE. THE STICKS ARE PLANTED IN THE GROUND AND THE DRUM SUSPENDED FROM THE MIDDLE. ORNAMENTED WITH EAGLE FEATHERS AND SYMBOLICAL CARVINGS. [the following is a transcription of the tag that is with the object] ""NO.4, MOONEY-OMAHA EXP..1898. FOUR DRUM SUPPORTS FOR SUPPORTING THE DRUM IN THE CROW DANCE & OTHER DANCES. THE STICKS ARE PLANTED IN THE GROUND & THE DRUM SUSPENDED IN THE CENTER. THEY ARE ORNAMENTED WITH----- OF THE BUFFALO PIPE, EAGLE, MAGPIE, [sun and morning star]. ARAPAHO (SOUTHERN) TRIBE OKLA. COLLECTED BY JAMES MOONEY." . ILLUS.: EWERS, JOHN C. PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE; FIG. 201, PG. 203. IDENTIFIED THERE AS SET OF BIRD HEAD EFFIGY DRUM SUPPORTS; PAINTED WOOD, HORSEHAIR, METAL BELL, AND FEATHER PENDANT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, South, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei), Southern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036021
label: USNM Number
content: E204543-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum Support