Frame Drum
Thunder Elk
ca. 1887
Medium
wood, leather, sinew; metal wire; pigment
Dimensions
Drum: 13 5/8 × 13 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (34.6 × 34.3 × 4.8 cm) Beater: 12 3/4 × 3/4 × 3/4 in. (32.4 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm)
Classification
Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum
Culture
Native American (Sioux)
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number
89.4.3326a, b