- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery kettle drum with painted skin stretched over it.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Mercy Watson
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1887
- Date collected
- 1885-1887
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1967
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Animal Skin, Material Pigment, Material Pigment, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Tied, Process Painted, Process Stretched
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 175 mm, Height: max 85 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1967.29.115
Search terms: Music, Pottery, Musical Instrument, Kettle Drum
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