|
Date: |
|
Description: | This toy drum was collected by the New Zealand based composer Jack Body in Java in 1977. He bought it from a street seller in the town of Jogjakarta. The rattle drum design, in which the beaters are attached to the sides of the frame in such a way that they strike the membrane when the instrument is spun back and forth, has a long history in temple music traditions of Tibet, China, Korea and Japan, but in Indonesia is found only as a toy. Because of this discrepancy, Body speculated that the toy may be a surviving remnant of an 'adult' instrument that has since fallen from use in the region.
Rattle drum. Double membrane frame drum. Membranes of brown paper, which also covers the shell. The shell and one membrane are decorated with adhered red paper cutout designs. A stick handle runs through the middle of the shell. It is wrapped in red paper, which has been cut into a plume effect at the top. Small pellets wrapped in brown paper are attached to the sides of the shell with thread. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | cotton wood drums (membranophones) paper vegetable fibre drums | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14412 |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
buhai
The name 'buhai' means ‘bull',…
-
|