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Drum

Object Number:96-2-2A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Blackfeet
Provenience: Montana
Billings
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Maker: Dan Bill Plume
Section:American
Materials:Wood
Hide
Pigment
Height: 8.5 cm
Outside Diameter:41 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Dr. Frederica de Laguna, 1996

Description

Circular drum of hide stretched over a wooden frame; lashed at eight places and tied together at the center rear; surface is rubbed with red pigment. Tag attached: "Dan Bull Plume...goes by name of Chief Bull Plume".

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