drum
- Museum number
- Af1940,22.6
- Description
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Register 1940:
Composite drum, large, with carved human figure, hide membrane.
- Production date
- 1906 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 centimetres
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Width: 46 centimetres
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Depth: 39 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1940:
These objects were brought home from Nigeria in 1906 by Lt- Col Percy Maclear. See letter from Mrs. Bickford of 36.5.75.
Register 1940 later addition:
[Yoruba, S. Nigeria] (W.B.F.).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Acquisition notes
- Af1940,22.1 to 7 were given by Mrs Percy Maclear in 1940 through her daughter, Mrs Eileen M. Bickford. They had been collected in Nigeria by her late husband, Lt.-Col. Percy Maclear of the West Africa Frontier Force (1875-1914), and were thought to have been brought back to England in 1906.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1940,22.6