Dance Drum
Item number A6901 a from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number A6901 a from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Circular, handheld drum made from hide stretched over a wooden frame. Drum has four lengths of wire across the back with cloth covering the centre juncture, forming a handle.
ceremonial; music; spirit dancing
Anthropologist William Elmendorf notes that: "The skin drum was a tambourine with single-skin head of uncured deer hide. During the reservation period horsehide came to be preferred for its louder tone. The single head was stretched across a circular frame of wood, usually a vine maple hoop. The head skin covered the side of the wood frame and was held taught by thong lacings. The frame was thin, one to three feet in diameter, three to four inches deep. It was made of a single piece of wood, bent with the aid of hot water (1960:221)."
This drum was acquired by the collector from Robbie Davis of the Esquimalt reserve, prior to 1958. At the time it was sold to the museum (1958), the collector noted that "[Davis] had always danced at the winter dances until last year. He is 76 years old.”
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ceremonial; music; spirit dancing
Circular, handheld drum made from hide stretched over a wooden frame. Drum has four lengths of wire across the back with cloth covering the centre juncture, forming a handle.
Anthropologist William Elmendorf notes that: "The skin drum was a tambourine with single-skin head of uncured deer hide. During the reservation period horsehide came to be preferred for its louder tone. The single head was stretched across a circular frame of wood, usually a vine maple hoop. The head skin covered the side of the wood frame and was held taught by thong lacings. The frame was thin, one to three feet in diameter, three to four inches deep. It was made of a single piece of wood, bent with the aid of hot water (1960:221)."
This drum was acquired by the collector from Robbie Davis of the Esquimalt reserve, prior to 1958. At the time it was sold to the museum (1958), the collector noted that "[Davis] had always danced at the winter dances until last year. He is 76 years old.”
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