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Drum

before 1929
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Drum
  • Date: before 1929
  • Geography: Society Islands, Leeward Islands: Fetuna, Raiate, France:N.
  • Culture: Polynesian
  • Medium: Coconut trunk, skin (goat?)
  • Dimensions: H.: 53 cm (20-7/8); head Diam.: app. 30 cm (11-13/16 in.)
  • Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / conical drum
  • Credit Line: Gift of Alexander Crosby Brown, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.53
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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