Object Details
- Culture/People
- Ka'apor
- Artist/Maker
- Xowí Ka'apor (Xowi Ka'apor), Ka'apor
- NMAI agent
- Carmen Arellaño, Quechua
- Ramiro Matos (RM), Quechua
- Collection History
- Purchased from the artist by Ramiro Matos (Quechua, NMAI staff member) and Carmen Arellano (Quechua, NMAI staff member) in 2000.
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- Date created
- 2000
- Catalog Number
- 25/8401
- Barcode
- 258401.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Indigenous Term
- tamor
- Object Name
- Drum
- Media/Materials
- Cedar, bark, howler monkey skin/fur, grass, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, stretched, laced, painted
- Dimensions
- 51.5 x 8 cm
- Place
- Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçú; North Mesoregion; Maranhão State, Northeast Region; Brazil (inferred)
- See related items
- Ka'apor
- Music and Sound
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274341
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws69af482de-23f7-4fa1-9faf-89d23d129d41
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