Musical Instrument: Drumstick & Drum

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Object Details

Collector

Mr. James Mooney

Donor Name

Bureau Of American Ethnology

Notes

Drum and drumstick (Badalgaga). Single-headed drum stretched over cheese box foundation, head of rawhide secured with twine decorated with dark circle in center. Cylindrical wooden stick with ball head at each end. 16" (41 cm); 12.25" (31 cm). Records: Head of cow skin. Used in Mescal Ceremony. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)

Record Last Modified

6 Mar 2017

Specimen Count

Culture

Kiowa

Accession Date

17 May 1892

Collection Date

C. 1891

Accession Number

025718

USNM Number

E152900-0

Object Type

Drum/Drumstick

Place

Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America

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Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Ethnology

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3397c87e6-d44f-4bbb-9d75-17ec9635cf54

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8342394