Hand Drum

Item number E20732-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP OF PINE, THE JOINT SCARFED AND NAILED. ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE OR THIN SKIN. WHEN GREEN IT IS STRETCHED ACROSS AND OVER THE HOOP AND FASTENED TO BACK EDGE WITH WOODEN PIN, EXCEPT IN THREE PLACES WHERE THE SKIN WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH IT IS PEGGED ON OUTSIDE OF HOOP. TWO PAIRS OF HOLES OF THE PAIRS ABOUT 9 INCHES APART ARE MADE THROUGH HOOP AND SKIN 1-1/4 INCHES FROM BACK EDGE AND TWO RAWHIDE THONGS ARE STRETCHED ACROSS BACK OF HOOP SO AS TO CROSS AT THE MIDDLE. A ROPE OF HEMP IS WOUND LENGTHWISE OF THE CROSSING TO FORM A HANDLE."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This drum is a Tlingit design and is made with bentwood and deer hide.