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Drum
Object Number 94-38-10/62489
Display Title Drum
Descriptions
Inventory Description Drum, wood frame, double-headed with hide, sinew binding
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Montagnais
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Materials Wood, Hide, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 52.5 x 52.5 x 9.8 cm (20 11/16 x 20 11/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 62489, World's Colombian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.\ Department of Ethnology and
Provenance
Collector Pere Charles Arnaud (1892)
Intermediary Archibald R. Tisdale (1892-)

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