Catalogue card notes: "Drum, with cylindrical wooden body carved in narrow vertical facets on lower section and horizontal rings in upper section. Skin typannum stretched with seven wooden pegs."
Drum, with cylindrical wooden body carved in narrow vertical facets on lower section and horizontal rings in upper section. Skin tympanum stretched with seven wooden pegs.
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "Z. 21058 | W. AFRICA | Nigeria / Benin / Drum, with cylindrical wooden body carved in narrow vertical facets on lower section and horizontal rings on upper section. Skin typanum [sic] stretched with seven wooden pegs. / Labelled 'Benin (Bt. Oldman 1905)' and '8851.'"
Red circular sticker in bottom right corner of card.
The drum (Oldman no. 8851) was paid -/12/6 to W. O. Oldman on 2 December 1905. The receipt signed by Oldman can be found in one of the uncatalogued envelopes of correspondence in MAA's archives.
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The drum (Oldman no. 8851) was sent to Anatole von Hügel by London dealer W. O. Oldman for approval on 24 November 1905. It was priced 12/6. The Oldman despatch form can be found in one of the uncatalogued envelopes of correspondence in MAA's archives.