drum & drumstick

drum & drumstick

drum & drumstick

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Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Place of Origin: White Earth Reservation
Materials

Drum: single piece of hide, wooden rim, raw hide, red and blue paint
Drumstick: wood wrapped with red woolen tape (commercial)

Techniques or Format

Drum: single piece of hide cut 2/3 and folded and stretched over a wooden rim, cut sides are sewn with raw hide; raw hide binding forms a handle on one end

drumstick: comes to open loop on one end

Motifs and Patterns

Drum: one is painted blue with a red circle in middle, the other side is painted red with blue circle in middle; narrow white band left between the blue and red

Condition: Drum: good, hide slightly torn
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E278114
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1913
GKS Reference Number: 25770
Approximate Place of Origin

46.2, -90.9