Haitian Drum

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Object Details

Caption

Animal hide stretches across carved wood to form this tall drum made in Haiti. Thin ropes holding the hide are tautly secured to a wider rope tied around the drum’s middle. Wooden wedges fit snugly between ropes and drum. The drum tapers to a smaller cylinder at the bottom.

Cite As

Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Date

20th century

Accession Number

1995.0038.0002

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

drum

Medium

hide wood string

Dimensions

23 3/4 × 15 3/8 × 14 9/16 in. (60.4 × 39 × 37 cm)

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Anacostia Community Museum Collection

Data Source

Anacostia Community Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl81ad7d9fa-fbbc-454e-b46d-9f2dc93069af

Record ID

acm_1995.0038.0002