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Wooden and skin drum
Object Number 41-79-30/2999
Display Title Wooden and skin drum
Descriptions
Inventory Description Drum, wooden cylinder topped with hide tympanum bound with rope, cracked
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Dutch Guiana
South America / Suriname
Materials Wood, Hide, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 59 x 21 cm (23 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 41-79-30/2999
Provenance
Collector Albert Ammann (1882-1890)
Donor Marguerita Ammann (1941)
Donor Ruth Verbeck (1941)

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