Haitian Drum

Object Details

Date: 20th century

Medium: hide wood string
Dimensions: 23 3/4 × 15 3/8 × 14 9/16 in. (60.4 × 39 × 37 cm)

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.

Accession Number: 1995.0038.0002

Type: drum

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Data Source: Anacostia Community Museum

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Metadata Usage: CC0

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

Record ID: acm_1995.0038.0002

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