- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Double membrane drum [.13] for drum stand 1886.15.3 .1
- Long description
- Double membrane drum [.13] for drum stand 1886.15.3 .1. For the complete record for this object see [1886.15.3] and for the records for the detachable individual parts see stand [1886.15.3 .1], low wicker stool [1886.15.3 .2] and double membrane drums [1886.15.3 .3 - 1886.15.3 .23]. [GL 20/2/2020]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 12/1886, uncertain Transferred: 12/1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved, Process Hollowed, Process Stretched, Process Tied, Process Wicker Woven, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Width: max 140 mm, Length: max 282 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.15.3.13
- Research and responses
Shway Yae, 'The Burman, II' . I found the following bibliographical reference to Shway Yoe mentioned in the red numbers accession book 'SCOTT, J. George ('Shway Yoe'). BURMA. As it was, as it is, and as it will be. Redway: London, 1886.' [AP 12/12/2000]
Search terms: Music, Basketry, Musical Instrument
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