FMNH 273125.nosub{2}

  • 273125 wood drum
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    Description: Drum
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    Scanner: Allison Coates : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | Catalogue No. 273125 | ENT | Accession No. 2616 | Field Catalogue No. FC-1914 | Negative No. 97174 | Sub. Ind. No. 51-42 | General Provenience: Polynesia (Austral Islands) Raivavae | Where collected: | Where made: | Attribution: | Tribe: | People: | Culture: | Brief Description: Drum | Detailed description: Small wooden drum with shark-skin head which is secured by tautening braids of sennit which ultimately wrap around a base ring. Base is of "open" work. | See reverse | Dimensions (in cm.): | length: 49.0 | width: 14.0 | height: | circumfrence: | diameter: | Fuller Collection: Purchased from Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England, in 1958. Formerly in the Orphans Working School, Maitland Park, Northwest. Acquired by Fuller on Feb. 3, 1908.
Catalog Number: 273125.nosub{2}
Description: drum
Materials: wood, skin, vegetal fiber; sennit
Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1958
Other Numbers: FC 1914, 97174
Collector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1182001
GUID: eda7c6e3-f509-4baa-ad1d-23106eb38c8d

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