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Snake charmer's basket-like drum - for carrying snakes
Snake charmer's basket-like drum - for carrying snakes
Object Number 55-26-60/10528
Display Title Snake charmer's basket-like drum - for carrying snakes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Drum, round, basketry of split reed, wrapped plant fiber, stretched hide top
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Pakistan / Sindh / <County> / <City> / Thatta
Materials Leather, Plant fiber, Reed
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 24 x 25 cm (4 1/8 x 9 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 55-26-60/10528
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (1955)
Collector Dr. Henry Field (1955)

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