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Hourglass drum (udäkki)
19th century
Object Place: Sri Lanka
Medium/Technique
Jak wood, animal skin
Dimensions
Height 16.5 cm, diameter 17 cm (Height 6 1/2 in., diameter 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.2172
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CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Membranophones
InscriptionsIn pencil inside one end of body: [deliberate, but incipherable mark; see copy in object file.
ProvenanceFrancis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)