Double membrane barrel drum with whitish hide, braced with continuous raw hide strips looped over thick hoops of twisted hide. [FC 11/9/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Double membrane barrel drum with whitish hide, braced with continuous raw hide strips looped over thick hoops of twisted hide. [FC 11/9/2008]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1878
Date collected: By 1878
Acquisition information: Transferred: 28/09/1885
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Carved, Process Hollowed
Dimensions: Height: max 315 mm, Diameter: max 145 mm, Diameter 120 mm base
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.538 Other numbers: 115 or 117 or 118 508 509 510 511
Research and responses: * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 16/7/99] This object is not mentioned in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book entry - Ramsden coll pages 223 - 255 [AP 21/7/99]

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