Drum with monkey design
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Akurio (Acuria)
- Collector
- A. Hyatt Verrill (Alpheus Hyatt Verrill), Non-Indian, 1871-1954
- Previous owner
- A. Hyatt Verrill (Alpheus Hyatt Verrill), Non-Indian, 1871-1954
- Seller
- A. Hyatt Verrill (Alpheus Hyatt Verrill), Non-Indian, 1871-1954
- Collection History
- Collected by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954, explorer, author, and MAI field collector) at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from Hyatt Verrill in 1918.
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- Date created
- 1910-1918
- Catalog Number
- 7/4471
- Barcode
- 074471.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Object Name
- Drum with monkey design
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide, rope, feather/feathers, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, bent, stretched, laced, tied, painted
- Dimensions
- 25 x 13 cm
- Place
- Near headwaters; Berbice River headwaters; Upper Demerara-Berbice Region; Guyana
- See related items
- Akurio (Acuria)
- Music and Sound
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_80205
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws602c444c8-8ece-4c77-8416-ad3e4c9e2d07
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