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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
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