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Object Number 94-14-70/51551
Display Title Bamboo drum
Descriptions
Object Description Bamboo drum; Skin headed drum bamboo cylinder with one open end, one end covered with reptile skin, patterns burned into surface, skin bound to cylinder with wedge-ring method.
Inventory Description Drum, hollow, cylindrical bamboo, pyrograved, leather stretched one end
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Java
Dimensions Overall: 60.8 x 10.1 x 10.1 cm (23 15/16 x 4 x 4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51551
Provenance
Collector Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam

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