drum
- Museum number
- Af1940,18.5
- Description
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Register 1940:
Composite drum, large, wooden body, tapering to narrow foot, hide membrane, holed in centre.
- Production date
- 1897-1914 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 81.50 centimetres
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Width: 24 centimetres
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Depth: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1940:
Similar to Af1940,18.4., smaller.
Barotse, N. Rhodesia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Acquisition notes
- Af1940,18.1 to 9 were collected and given by Frank Worthington who was in Zambia between 1897 and 1914. This gift complements Af1940,09.1 to 85. All are recorded as coming from the Barotse [Lozi] in Rhodesia.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1940,18.5