The paint is red and black.

From card: "Membrane tightly stretched over a wooden hoop and tacked on the edge. Head painted with totemic design."

From card: "9/28/66 Examination of accession records indicate that this specimen was associated with a 'shaman' grave examined by McLean near Sitka." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with the card: "Hand drum of the Tlinkit Indians ... Shell, a hoop of wood; head, of skin, soaked, stretched across the hoop, nailed to the back, having on the inside the figure of a bear in red and black. Thongs cross the hoop on the inside. Diameter, 24 3/4 inches. Collected, 1884, by John J. McLean."

FROM CARD: "SHELL, A HOOP, THE JOINT IS SCARFED AND LASHED. ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER HOOP AND HAILED TO BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR STRIPS OF HIDE FORM THE HEAD; ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND TIED IN THE MIDDLE, FORMING A CROSS FOR A HANDLE." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE TLINKITS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND NAILED TO THE BACK EDGE, THE HANDLE BEING FORMED OF THONGS TIED TOGETHER AT THE BACK. DIAMETER, 14 1/2 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA. 20,731. COLLECTED, 1875, BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "SINGLE HEADED TAMBOURINE DRUM; HEAD PAINTED WITH CONVENTIONALIZED FIGURE. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

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.

From card: "Presented by Ellsworth [a.k.a. Ellswarsh], a chief. See U.S.N.M. Report 1888, p. 446, pl. 29. A rectangular box open at top. When used as a drum it is held on one corner, the open top towards the drummer and its sides beaten. The sides and ends are one piece of wood. Three triangular grooves are cut across the piece at the inside where the corners are to come the wood is bent a right angle. What splinters occur are speared off, giving rounded corners on the outside. The sides are painted with their conventional designs of the thunder bird, masks, etc. Used as a drum in their ceremonies." Note re photos: Neg. #s 96-20092 shows side 1, and 96-20093 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, Ellsworth or Ellswarsh may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.