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Object Number
52-27-10/33518
Display Title
Peyote Drum
Descriptions
Object Description
Pawnee peyote drum (with stick and cord tightener). The standard drum made of a commercial iron kettle. The 7 lumps are balls caught under the deerskin head in symbolic representation of the shape of a peyote button and the pattern formed by the tie on the bottom serves the same purpose. Star pattern tied at bottom.
Inventory Description
Drum, peyote, footed metal kettle, leather skin top, knobbed sides wrapped rope
Classification
- Percussion
Department
Ethnographic
Date
circa 1950
Culture
- Pawnee
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Oklahoma
Materials
Rope, Iron, Deer skin head
Dimensions
Overall: 18 x 27.4 x 28 cm (7 1/16 x 10 13/16 x 11 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
52-27-10/33518, 4
Provenance
Collector
Denver Art Museum
(1952)
Exchange participant
Denver Art Museum
(05/06/1952 & 06/02/1952)
Intermediary
Mr. Frederic H. Douglas
(05/06/1952 & 06/02/1952)
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