Object Details
- Culture/People
- Mapuche
- Previous owner
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Museo Nacional, Santiago)
- Expedition
- Mrs. Thea Heye Chile Expedition (1929-1930) (Mrs. Thea Heye - Lothrop Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Santiago, Chile); acquired by MAI in 1930 through an exchange with the Museo National that was negotiated by Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during the MAI's Thea Heye-Lothrop Expedition to Chile.
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- Date created
- circa 1920
- Catalog Number
- 17/7322
- Barcode
- 177322.000
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- Indigenous Term
- kultrung
- Object Name
- Shaman's drum
- Media/Materials
- Wood, horse rawhide, hide thong/babiche, horsehair, cordage, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, stretched, laced, painted
- Dimensions
- 18 x 47 cm
- Place
- Chile
- See related items
- Mapuche
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_189521
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws621f4c2b8-f853-435d-bc33-220db99f010d
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