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Ojibwe Hand Frame Drum

Minnesota
Northeast

Drum covered with deer skin
1900's

Diameter: 11 inches and Depth: 6 inches

Old Authentic Ojibwe frame drum with fir-covered perimeter and lacing. The hide is bare on the drum faces and has coarse brown short deer hair on the sides. The extra-heavy leather bindings are light taupe leather, all intact and twisted tightly for tautness.

 

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Catalog#: HWMC

Provenance: Floyd Johnstone Collection out of Seneca Falls, New York.