- Date
- 1920 ā 1940
- Material
- wood; skin; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0013
- Description
- A large round shallow hand drum of rawhide stretched tightly over wooden hoop. Rawhide laced to drum through holes drilled along perimeter of hoop with thick sinew, and then pulled across back of drum like spokes of a wheel and tightened with a piece of leather thong woven about the spokes at the cā¦
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- Title
- Hand Drum
- Date
- 1920 ā 1940
- Material
- wood; skin; sinew
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- A large round shallow hand drum of rawhide stretched tightly over wooden hoop. Rawhide laced to drum through holes drilled along perimeter of hoop with thick sinew, and then pulled across back of drum like spokes of a wheel and tightened with a piece of leather thong woven about the spokes at the centre. Rawhide skin once painted yellow and green.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- ceremonial
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.33.0013
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