Drum

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Culture Northern New Ireland

Title Drum (Livika or Lonuat)

Date 19th century

Medium Wood, sea-snail opercula, traces of lime, and and traces of pigment

Dimensions Object: 19 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 7 1/16 in. (49.5 × 21.6 × 17.9 cm)
Overall: 19 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 1/16 in. (49.5 x 21.6 x 17.9 cm)

Credit Line Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 97.2

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Unique to New Ireland, this type of friction drum represents a bird on its back, which has its eyes marked by shells. Men played such drums during memorial and initiation ceremonies by rubbing moistened hands across the three tongues at the top, each of which produces a different note.

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"Drum | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=97.2