Object Details
- Collector
- Mr. James Mooney
- Donor Name
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
- Drum and drumstick (Badalgaga). Single-headed drum stretched over cheese box foundation, head of rawhide secured with twine decorated with dark circle in center. Cylindrical wooden stick with ball head at each end. 16" (41 cm); 12.25" (31 cm). Records: Head of cow skin. Used in Mescal Ceremony. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
- Record Last Modified
- 6 Mar 2017
- Specimen Count
- 2
- Culture
- Kiowa
- Accession Date
- 17 May 1892
- Collection Date
- C. 1891
- Accession Number
- 025718
- USNM Number
- E152900-0
- Object Type
- Drum/Drumstick
- Place
- Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8342394
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3397c87e6-d44f-4bbb-9d75-17ec9635cf54
