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Frame Drum

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Frame Drum

Date:: 19th century
Geography:: Norton Sound, Alaska, United States
Culture:: Native American (Eskimauan or Eskimo)
Medium:: Wood, walrus ivory, seal or whale peritoneum
Dimensions:: Frame D.: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Max. Diam.: 31 cm (12-3/16 in.); Handle L.: 12.5 cm (4-15/16 in.)
Classification:: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum
Credit Line:: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number:: 89.4.592

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: 1) in black ink center of head) "33000 Norton Sound Alaska E.W., Norton"; 2) (in pencil on head) "Lannan" "592"
References

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Oceanica and America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1913, vol. II, pg. 93.
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