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Musical Instrument
Zoomorphic Drum
Papua New Guinean artist
Papua New Guinean artist
Papua New Guinea
Primary
36 13/16 x 8 11/16 x 12 1/8 in. (93.5 x 22 x 30.8 cm)
Papua New Guinean; made in Balimo Subdistrict
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Musical Instrument
This drum is on loan from one of the most significant collections of pre-contact Oceanic art in the nation held at the Buffalo Museum of Science. This local treasure is due largely to the skillful collecting of Chauncey J. Hamlin, prior president of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, and his 1938 acquisition of the P. G. T. Black collection. Black was one of the earliest westerners to visit Oceania. As an agent for a company that supplied mission stations, he collected art as he traveled throughout the area between 1886 and1914.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
20.2009L
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/2009
20.2009LDI#1
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20.2009LDI#4
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7/7/2015
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20.2009LDI#2
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7/7/2015
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20.2009LDI#3
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7/7/2015
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