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Date
1940 – 1955
Material
skin; wood; metal
Catalogue Number
104.33.0016
Description
Large square hand drum with rawhide stretched across a carefully constructed wooden frame and nailed to bottom edge. Heavy wire stretched across back from the centre of each side of the frame with one piece of the wire wrapped with a leather thong and wrapped and tied about the middle with a large …
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Title
Hand Drum
Date
1940 – 1955
Material
skin; wood; metal
Dimensions
7.3 x 39.0 x 39.0 cm
Description
Large square hand drum with rawhide stretched across a carefully constructed wooden frame and nailed to bottom edge. Heavy wire stretched across back from the centre of each side of the frame with one piece of the wire wrapped with a leather thong and wrapped and tied about the middle with a large knot. Each corner triangle of drum face painted red. Pencil marks on face near one corner and near another corner on back of hide.
Subject
Indigenous, Stoney
ceremonial
Nat Hunter
Mrs. Tom Wesley
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.33.0016
Images
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Date
1977
Material
skin; wood; sinew
Catalogue Number
104.33.0017
Description
A round hand drum of creamy coloured rawhide stretched over carefully constructed and reinforced wooden frame hoop. Edges of rawhide pierced and laced with heavy sinew along circumference of hoop with lacing caught at evenly spaced intervals with other pieces of sinew which are stretched tightly ac…
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Title
Hand Drum
Date
1977
Material
skin; wood; sinew
Dimensions
5.4 x 31.3 cm
Description
A round hand drum of creamy coloured rawhide stretched over carefully constructed and reinforced wooden frame hoop. Edges of rawhide pierced and laced with heavy sinew along circumference of hoop with lacing caught at evenly spaced intervals with other pieces of sinew which are stretched tightly across back of drum and woven about in a ring with another piece of sinew at the centre. Face of drum scratched.
Subject
Indigenous, Stoney
ceremonial
Mina Lefthand
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.33.0017
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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