Drum beater
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Place of origin
Uganda
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303772.2
Summary
One of two curved wooden beaters for a small Ugandan drum with cow hide stretched over podocarpus wood frame and tied with numerous gut strings. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).