210324 Catalog Card

Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 22-35 | Provenience: Benin, Nigeria | People or Culture: Bini | Object: Drum | Material: Wood, skin, sennit | Description: From the Taphonse Collection of musical instruments, Oxford, and depicted in W.D. Webster's Catalogue No. 21, fig. 155. Carved wooden drum with a skin tympanum retained by sennit which passes round the body of the drum over wooden pegs. Photo on reverse side | Dimensions: (in cm.) Ht. 13.3; diam. of head 10.2 | Collection: Fuller Collection: presented by Mrs. A.W.F. Fuller, 13 November 1963 [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 210324 | Field No. 200 R. 1/68 | Neg. No. | Acc. 2815 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH] Catalog #210324. | Label (found inside drum 4/84): "Drum African from Benin Cut out of a solid piece of wood and covered with a human scalp. The beaters are made from the shell of a nut attached to a piece of string. Height ["8 1/4" crossed out] 5-1/4 inches. Diameter 4 inches ts/-"
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Department(s)
  • Anthropology
Creator(s)
  • Scanner: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
Physical Size and Format: PDF document
Citation: Courtesy of: C. J. Philipp, J. W. Kennedy. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/9da5ee31-0201-461d-8e5d-0c89f4bfce08 (accessed on 31 Jul 2023)
Media File URL: http://fm-digital-assets.fieldmuseum.org/433/722/210324CC.pdf
Associated Catalog Number(s)
  • 210324.nosub[1]
Associated Specimen(s)
Taxon Coverage
  • 2235: West Africa: musical instruments
Related Geography: Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Africa
scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 22-35 | Provenience: Benin, Nigeria | People or Culture: Bini | Object: Drum | Material: Wood, skin, sennit | Description: From the Taphonse Collection of musical instruments, Oxford, and depicted in W.D. Webster's Catalogue No. 21, fig. 155. Carved wooden drum with a skin tympanum retained by sennit which passes round the body of the drum over wooden pegs. Photo on reverse side | Dimensions: (in cm.) Ht. 13.3; diam. of head 10.2 | Collection: Fuller Collection: presented by Mrs. A.W.F. Fuller, 13 November 1963 [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 210324 | Field No. 200 R. 1/68 | Neg. No. | Acc. 2815 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH] Catalog #210324. | Label (found inside drum 4/84): "Drum African from Benin Cut out of a solid piece of wood and covered with a human scalp. The beaters are made from the shell of a nut attached to a piece of string. Height ["8 1/4" crossed out] 5-1/4 inches. Diameter 4 inches ts/-"
IRN: 433722
GUID: 9da5ee31-0201-461d-8e5d-0c89f4bfce08