Accession No

Z 14510 B


Description

Slit drum made from a section of bamboo with slit cut along the length and a protruding section at top. There is a piece of fibre tied around the top section and a crack at both ends.


Place

Africa; West Africa; Sierra Leone; Northern Province


Period


Source

Thomas, Northcote Whitridge [field collector]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

Z 14510 B; MAA: AR 1916.198; E 1916.146; 150 [Museum no.]; 83 [Thomas Coll.]


Cultural Affliation

Timne


Material

Cane; Bamboo; Plant; Fibre


Local Term


Measurements

80mm x 80mm x 550mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
In pencil on instrument: '83'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Labels & Markings)
'Feb. 1915' stamped on bamboo instrument. [T.Cadbury]
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (Related Documents)
(bio) N.W. Thomas, MA, Trinity College, Government Ethnologist, South Nigeria and later, Sierra Leone
Part of the 1916.146 (AR 1916.198) N.W. Thomas Ethnological Collection, Sierra Leone. Collected for the museum in 1914. This collection now bears Z numbers. Z 14434 - Z 14587 and Z 20479
See E 1916.146 record for further notes on this collection.

Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Physical description)
Bamboo musical instrument.
[note in different handwriting] Three [two crossed out] bamboo musical instruments. Also two sticks.
One is labelled 'Musical instrument beaten when circumcision boys are walking'.

Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (Amendments / updates)
Record updated as part of the Museum Affordances project 2018-2020

Event Date 10/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Physical description)
Slit drum made from a section of bamboo with slit cut along the length and a protruding section at top. There is a piece of fibre tied around the top section and a crack at both ends.
Event Date 10/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring


FM:280890

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