drum

Dublin Core

Title

drum

Identifier

Subject

Yoruba Ogboni

Description

Carved wooden drum with skin missing. Bottom filled with fibre (? muffle). Decorated with carved human and animal figures. Used in sending messages and in summoning people together. Willett states that: 'this drum is from an Ogboni house carved in the style of Osi Ekiti District'.

Date

Early: 1800 Late: 1900

Relation

wood vegetable.fibre

Format

H: 1130 mm

Coverage

Africa Nigeria NE Ekiti.District Osi ( Oyo or Ogbomosho )