Drum: Museum Object and Cultural History
Drum: date made: 1800 - 1850. Object Name: drum. Physical Description: wood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This drum was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1800-1850. According to the accession record, this was a Confederate drum captured at Yorktown by Capt. D.K. Wardwell of the 22nd Massachusetts Volunteers Porter's Division.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1800 - 1850
- Object Name: drum
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: rope (overall material)
- Physical Description: leather (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in x 17 in x 17 in; 30.48 cm x 43.18 cm x 43.18 cm
- place made: United States
- Subject: Civil War
- Subject: Confederacy
- ID Number: MI.123076
- accession number: 18065
- catalog number: 123076
- Credit Line: Gift of Joseph Sessford
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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