Drum hand-painted depicting caricatures of nine male faces: Museum Object and Cultural History
Drum hand-painted depicting caricatures of nine male faces: Date: ca. 1925. Type: drums (membranophones). Medium: wood, metal, hide and paint.
The object in the museum catalogue
A hand painted drum depicting caricatures of nine male faces on the drumhead. The sides of drum are painted with red and white triangles. The rim of drum has eight metal tension rods. The center of drum head has a large face with large yellow eyes and a wide smiling mouth. The large face is depicted wearing a red bowtie with black polka dots. Surrounding the large face at the drumhead's center are eight musical notes decorated with eight (8) small faces that form the note heads. There are seven (7) eighth notes and one (1) sixteenth note. The bottom of drumhead is hollow. At the top edge of the drum is a metal handle for hanging/carrying.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1925
- Type: drums (membranophones)
- Medium: wood, metal, hide and paint
- Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 17 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (52.1 x 45.4 x 16.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Caricature and cartoons
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Stereotypes
- Object number: 2007.7.444
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Collection of James M. Caselli and Jonathan Mark Scharer
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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