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Drum & Drum-Stick Of Bone

National Museum of Natural History

E89918-0

From card: "Drum Illus. in BAE 11th AR, fig. 152, p. 325. Of the Algonquian family. Shell a hoop of wood; heads of seal intestines stretched over square flesh-hoops and held by tightening hoops, through holes in which the lacing passes. There are two snares of twisted sinew with sections of quill attached. Beaten with a bone drumstick."Illus. p. l in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge.

  • Type of Item drum
  • Culture Innu, Nenenot
  • Field Collector Lucien M. Turner
  • Made in Quebec
  • Collected in Quebec
  • Acquisition Date on January 9, 1884
  • Accession Number 013922

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