Napi Gives People Life
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]
- Artist/Maker
- Darrell L. Norman (Ee-Nees-Too-Wah-See [Growing Like a Buffalo]), Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana], b. 1943
- Previous owner
- R. E. Mansfield (Richard E. Mansfield), Non-Indian, 1937-2007
- Donor
- R. E. Mansfield (Richard E. Mansfield), Non-Indian, 1937-2007
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of R.E. Mansfield (1937-2007), donated to NMAI by R.E. Mansfield in 2004.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1997
- Catalog Number
- 26/4321
- Barcode
- 264321.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Title
- Napi Gives People Life
- Object Name
- Hand drum and drumstick
- Media/Materials
- Rawhide, wood, glass bead/beads, feather/feathers, wool cloth, cotton cloth, brass bell/bells, paint
- Techniques
- Stretched, carved, painted, strung, wrapped
- Dimensions
- 72 x 62 x 8 cm
- Place
- Browning, Blackfeet Reservation; Glacier County; Montana; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]
- Music and Sound
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Outside Rasmuson Theater, Music and Dance
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_280522
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws649353d6e-0a83-40ec-8164-47bc6be766f8
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