drum
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.573
- Description
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Cylindrical wooden drum with rectangular projection and handle at centre; perforations along projection, one from base threaded with tufts of plant fibre; top half decorated with carved spiral motifs; flat top of handle roughly textured with linear carving including circular motif at centre. Two linear raised bands either side of handle, each terminating in plain oval near base and carved spiral motif near top; small perforations along sides. Lower half of drum has two horizontal bands of carved wavy motifs; zigzags at centre; crescents above and below. Traces of white pigment. Membrane missing. Cane band at base. Small corroding metal plate centre side.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 18 centimetres (with handle)
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Length: 82.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM register notes drum called sidai made at Nuwakata. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.573