Object Details
- Donor Name
- King Maha Mongkut
- FROM CARD: "LONG CYLINDRICAL WOODEN BODY, WITH SKIN HEAD ON EACH END, WHICH IS WRAPPED AROUND A THICK TRIANGULAR ? BAMBOO FRAME, AROUND WHICH THE THIN BAMBOO STRIPS ARE TIED FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER, HOLDING BOTH HEADS WITH ONE SET. THIS IS A PAIR WITH NO. 69. WHEN THESE WERE LOOKED FOR BY DR. HAWLEY, IN THE 1920S THEY WERE NOT FOUND, BECAUSE OF LACK OF ORIG. NO. IDENT."
- Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 123
- Record Last Modified
- 9 Jan 2018
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Date
- 9 Mar 1859
- Accession Number
- 266032
- USNM Number
- E67-0
- Object Type
- Drum
- Place
- Thailand, Asia
- See more items in
- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8472766
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/359edaba1-f017-44e4-b809-b44e72470552
