Slit drum
Artist
Samoa
Date1892-93
MediumWood
ClassificationsSound Devices
Credit LineMuseum Collection
Object number1994.17.58 LA
Description"The small hand gong (pate) is the smallest of the gongs. The inside follows the elliptical section of the wood. The narrow longitudinal opening being along one end of the ellipse, the hollowing stops a little way from the ends, which are also slightly hollowed out from the outside. Different notes which the musician utilizes are thus produced by beating over the middle and over the ends." (Buck p. 576)On View
Not on viewCollections
Japan
JAPANESE
Egypt
Herbert Wheaton Congdon
[not after 1965].
