Object Details
Culture/People
Southeast
Artist/Maker
120th Engineer Combat Battalion
Previous owner
120th Engineer Combat Battalion
Donor
Sergeant Debra K. Mooney, Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma
120th Engineer Combat Battalion
Collection History
Made by members of the U.S. Army's 120th Engineer Combat Battalion (headquartered in Okmulgee, Oklahoma) and used during their Al Taqaddum Inter-Tribal Powwow, September 17-18, 2004, in Al Taqaddum, Iraq. Donated to NMAI by Battalion members and their chaplain, Sergeant Debra K. Mooney (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), in 2005.
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Date created
2004
Catalog Number
26/5148
Barcode
265148.000
Object Type
Music and Sound
Title
Desert Thunder
Object Name
Drum, stand, and drumsticks
Media/Materials
Metal, cotton canvas, wood, commercially tanned leather, plastic, nylon cord, adhesive tape, metal nails
Techniques
Cut, cutout, stretched, nailed, wrapped
Dimensions
61 x 62 x 45 cm
Place
Al Fallujah; Al Anbar Province; Iraq
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Southeast
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Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Link to Original Record
Record ID
NMAI_281343