leather; porcupine quills, dyed purple, orange, and pink; sinew; commercial silk; commercial cotton yarn

The leather panels are decorated with quillwork and edged with green silk. They are both attached to a strip of tanned hide, which appears to be a different type of hide than the panels.

Heart, double curve, four-lobed shape, circles.

Collected by G.C. Beltrami from Wisconsin in 1823. Beltrami's collection catalogue states that around 1856, Beltrami's nephew donated several objects to the Civic Library of Bergamo, which were later transferred to the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali.

The Beltrami Collection was exhibited in Florence in 1929 during the "Prima Esposizione Nazionale di Storia delle Scienze" (First National Exposition of History of Sciences"). In 1973, during a celebration of the Beltrami exhibit, Glauco Luchetti donated three objects from his own collection, which were located in Beltrami's last house in Filottrano, to the "Museo Civico E. Caffi". In 1987 the collection was used in the exhibit entitled "Missisippi 1823. Oggetti indiani raccolti da G. Costantino Beltrami" in the Galleria Lorenzelli in Bergamo. In 1988, this object was in the exhibit "The Spirit Sings", Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.In 1988 this drum was loaned for the exhibit "The Spirit Sings", Glanbow Museum, Alberta.

Beltrami Collection Catalogue.
Vigorelli, Gli Oggetti indiani raccolti da G.Costantino Beltrami, p. 53.

Leonardo Vigorelli, Gli Oggetti indiani raccolti da G.Costantino Beltrami, Civico Museo E. Caffi, Bergamo, 1987.

This record was first by Emanuela Rossi after a trip funded by GRASAC to the Museo Civico E. Caffi in Bergamo, Italy in October 2008.

Researcher present: Emanuela Rossi