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"Modern" drum or tamborine made of light deer hide stretched over a commercial cheese box.
"Modern" drum or tamborine made of light deer hide stretched over a commercial cheese box.
Object Number 15-36-10/86411
Display Title "Modern" drum or tamborine made of light deer hide stretched over a commercial cheese box.
Descriptions
Object Description "Modern" drum or tamborine made of light deer hide stretched over a commercial cheese box.
Inventory Description Drum, hide over wood frame secured with nails, red pigment decoration, mended
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 37 x 13 cm (14 3/16 x 14 9/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86411
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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