slit-drum
- Museum number
- Af.8683
- Description
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Slit drum carved in heavy red wood.
- Production date
- 1872 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
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Depth: 47 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A note is appended to the register slip: "Mr Lovibond brought a much larger drum of this kind from Batanga, West Africa, which he offered to sell to Mr Franks in 1872. It was 2ft 9ins long, 17 ins high and 13 1/2 ins long. Mr L. said it is named 'druma', is used by the chiefs, and he believed is made in the interior by one of the bush tribes, perhaps by the Usheba."
A later suggestion added to the slip is Tanda, Ubangi River, Congo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by A W Franks in Hamburg in 1872 and given by him to the British Museum on 28 October 1872.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.8683
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1872C1.8683 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Af1974Q1.282
