Drum

Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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collected 1912

Wood, lizard skin, beeswax, string, sago fiber, resin, natural pigments

Overall: 33 7/16 × 4 1/2 in. (85 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Bradley M. Patten

34.36.5954

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Art Styles of the Papuan Gulf, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, New York, February 15-May 7, 1961, no. 42.

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 24-September 2, 2007.

Publication History

Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 7.

Provenance

Collected by Professor William Patten (1861-1932, Class of 1908H, Dartmouth Professor of Zoology, 1893-1931), March 17-23, 1912; to his son Dr. Bradley M. Patten (1889-1971), Ann Arbor, Michigan; given to present collection, 1971.

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