drum-stand
- Museum number
- Af1946,21.61
- Description
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Wooden drum-support, with two wheels and circular perforation in centre and having figures of two men with trumpet and cymbal carrying another man in a hammock slung on a stick.
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.50 centimetres
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Width: 50 centimetres
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Depth: 11.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1946:
Wooden object, with 2 wheels and circular perforation in centre and having figures of 2 men with trumpet and cymbal carrying another man in a hammock slung on a stick.
Register 1946 later addition:
Support for end of a long drum. Lower Congo, (W.B.F.) Bakongo.
Cf. Boone.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Af1946,21.1 to 64 were purchased from Miss B E Smythe; all the items come from West/Central Africa, mostly Nigeria but with some from Gabon and Ghana. She seems to have inherited the collection without any documentation, and it may well date from before WWI. The attributions of provenance were made by W B Fagg (Dept of Ethnography).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1946,21.61
