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Drum
Object Number 74-25-10/7891
Display Title Drum
Descriptions
Inventory Description Drum, round wooden base covered with thin hide, wood nails, sinew strapping.
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Assiniboin?
  • Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
North America / Canada
Materials Wood, Leather
Dimensions Overall: 9 x 41.3 cm (3 9/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 7891
Provenance
Collector Gen. H. A. Morrow (? - 1874)
Donor Gen. H. A. Morrow (? - 1874)

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