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Slit Drum
19th century CE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Slit Drum
- Date Created: 19th century CE
- Location Created: Zaire
- Physical Dimensions: 83 x 30 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Wood
- Object Number: 60-9-1A
- Descriptive Note: Slit wooden drum. Flat, rectangular base, slightly convex sides sloping in to the slit top; ends concave and expanding to top. Plaited fibre carrying strap from base to pierced lug on one end. Two drum -(b,c) sticks; wood with rather large bitumen head.
- Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy R. Gilbert, 1960
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