Drum
Drumstick
Object Number:
AF3603
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Yoruba
Provenience:
Nigeria
Section:
African
Materials:
Wood
Leather
Fabric
Description:
Hourglass type. The two drumheads are held together by twisted thongs. There is a carrying loop of plaited thongs, and a long tubular cloth string in multiple loops attached to the drum. See fig. 223 in Br. Mus. Hdbk. to Ethnogr. Collections. The leather-covered drumstick is of the type figured by Ankermann, fig. 143a; see also the illustration previously cited. which has no more definite attribution than "British West Africa".
Credit Line:
Purchased from W. O. Oldman
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