Hide Drum and Mallet
Object Details
- Discipline
- Anthropology
- Region
- US-Alaska
- Description
- This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
- Geologic Age
- 1980s
- A Tlingit wooden frame drum made with stretched moose hide painted with a raven design. The drum was made in Sitka, Alaska by the artist Jennifer L. Brady, also called Ts'enak. The raven motif is painted in three primary colors; black, blue, and red and the design takes up nearly the entirety of the drum face. The skin is very tight across the drum and held by stiff sinew gathered in the middle of the drum's underside. The mallet is made of a wooden handle and a stitched fabric head wrapped in sinew.
- Number of objects in this record
- 2
- Record Last Modified
- 7 Nov 2023
- Culture
- Tlingit (Kiks.adi Clan)
- USNM Number
- EO400651
- Object Type
- Education and Outreach collections
- Material
- Wood, Hide, Sinew, Paint
- Collecting Locality
- North America, United States, Alaska
- See more items in
- Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
- Topic
- Education & Outreach
- Record ID
- nmnheducation_11020307
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f7d771b7-2c21-4069-8a7d-0d9b5a29e6e4
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