Frame Drum

Thunder Elk

Medium: wood, leather, sinew (buffalo or deer); 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)
Culture: Native American (Sioux)
Department: Musical Instruments
Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum
Dated: ca. 1887
Pixels: 2728 × 2044
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Thunder Elk. Frame Drum, ca. 1887. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.