Object Number | 50-25-1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Haiti | Port au Prince |
Culture Area | Caribbean |
Period | Modern |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Skin | Paint |
Technique | Painted |
Description | Voodoo drum. Tall, tapering from broad top to narrow flat open base. Hollowed light wood. Circular goat? skin head, held by 2 rings. Yellow rope laced from upper rings to rope near base. Covered with fine designed in bright polychrome glossy colors (modern commercial paint). |
Height | 43 Measurement Unit Not Provided |
Width | 23 Measurement Unit Not Provided |
Credit Line | Exchange with Kurt Fisher, 1950 |
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