Double membrane barrel drum with whitish hide stretched over a dark wooden drum. [FC 9/9/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Double membrane barrel drum with whitish hide stretched over a dark wooden drum. [FC 9/9/2008]
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 Hollowed, Process Carved, Process Stretched, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Height: max 375 mm, Diameter 194 mm of top membrane
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.547 Other numbers: 124 517
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]

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