Made of bentwood stitched with rawhide thongs, hide over top and bottom and stitched together with rawhide thongs. Wide reddish brown and black stripes painted on whitened drum. Top and bottom painted black.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Pueblo tribes
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
December 19, 1986
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 21.7 centimeters and diameter 29 centimeters
Comment:
References: Tanner, Clara Lee, "Southwest Indian Craft Arts", University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1968, pp. 173-74.