Object Details
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Artist/Maker
- Tom Sunny (Tony Sonny), Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Tom Sunny (Tony Sonny), Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1962; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1962
- Catalog Number
- 25/9845
- Barcode
- 259845.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Indigenous Term
- cauyaq
- Object Name
- Hand drum with seal handle
- Media/Materials
- Wood, animal gut/intestines , feather/feathers, twine/string, wool (unspun), vegetal dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Carved, stretched, stitched, painted
- Dimensions
- 10 x 55.8 cm
- Place
- Nightmute; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Nelson Island
- See related items
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Music and Sound
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Outside Rasmuson Theater, Music and Dance
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_275934
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws648ba3231-2499-465b-b8f9-1abd3e5c8d85
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