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In the 1600s, music was so important to Indigenous Andean ceremonial life that Spaniards destroyed thousands of musical instruments to hasten Natives’ conversion to Christianity. The number of surviving, older instruments suggests that music had similar import in earlier periods. This rare example is painted with a figure wearing a crescent headdress, an emblem of status; it may have been played by a woman.
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Document identity
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456979
label
Painted Drum
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object
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1
Source metadata
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456979
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object
title
Painted Drum
description
In the 1600s, music was so important to Indigenous Andean ceremonial life that Spaniards destroyed thousands of musical instruments to hasten Natives’ conversion to Christianity. The number of surviving, older instruments suggests that music had similar import in earlier periods. This rare example is painted with a figure wearing a crescent headdress, an emblem of status; it may have been played by a woman.
date
500–1000
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117247299
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Musical Instrument
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 27 x 28 x 12 cm (10 5/8 x 11 x 4 3/4 in.)
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Central Andes, Middle Horizon, North Coast?
accession
2022.37
Source extras
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Animal hide, gesso, wooden slats, pigment
tombstone
Painted Drum, 500–1000. Central Andes, Middle Horizon, North Coast?. Animal hide, gesso, wooden slats, pigment; overall: 27 x 28 x 12 cm (10 5/8 x 11 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2022.37
collection
AA - Andes
didYouKnow
This painted drum may have been played by a woman in antiquity.
creditline
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 09:05:05.176000
sourceId
456979
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Andes
med
Animal hide, gesso, wooden slats, pigment
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1
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0
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photo
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