Frame Drum

Thunder Elk

ca. 1887

Frame Drum by Thunder Elk

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

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