Kelyaut

Maker:: Northern Alaskan Eskimo; Family: Eskimavan

Period:: Native American

Date:: 19th century

Geography:: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States: N.A.

Culture:: Naive American (Northern Alaskan Eskimo)

Medium:: Willow wood, various materials

Dimensions:: Depth: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Max. Diam.: 41.5 cm (16-5/16 in.); Head Diam.: 41.5 cm (16-5/16 in.)

Classification:: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum

Credit Line:: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Accession Number:: 89.4.561

Not on view

Marking: (in black ink inside frame) "56740/Pt. Barrow 80/Ooglaamie P.H. Ray, U.S.A."

Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Oceanica and America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1913, vol. II, pg. 92.

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.

Department

Musical Instruments (5,304)

Artist / Maker / Culture

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Object Type / Material

Musical instruments (5,341)

Willow (28)

Wood (16,037)

Geographic Location

Alaska (178)

North and Central America (92,270)

Point Barrow (2)

United States (87,969)

Kelyaut (frame drum)

Date: 19th century Medium: wood, sennet Accession: 89.4.2890 On view in:Not on view

Frame Drum

Date: ca. 1887 Medium: wood, leather, sinew; metal wire; pigment Accession: 89.4.3326 a, b On view in:Not on view

Frame Drum

Date: 19th century Medium: wood, skin, iron Accession: 89.4.626 On view in:Not on view

Frame Drum

Date: late 19th century Medium: wood, skin, twine, bone Accession: 89.4.3442 On view in:Not on view

Cauyuk

Date: late 19th century Medium: Wood, skin Accession: 89.4.595 On view in:Not on view