Wooden drum used on the Sea Islands, South Carolina

Diameter: 14 15/16 in. (38 cm) Citation Source image

A wooden drum covered with stretched leather hide that has been attached to drum body with nine wooden pegs. Two carved, anthropomorphized face motifs are on opposite sides of the upper half of the drum body. The edges of face motifs have been sealed with a darker adhesive mat...

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2014.122.2
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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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