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Frame drum (rammana?)
1950–75
Object Place: Possibly Cambodia
Medium/Technique
Wood, rattan, animal skin
Dimensions
Height 9.6 cm, diameter 35.7 cm (Height 3 3/4 in., diameter 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph R. Coolidge in memory of his wife, Peggy Stuart Coolidge
Accession Number1981.779
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Membranophones
DescriptionCircular, sloping wood rim. Skin head wrapped around rattan (?) upper ring and laced with rattan to lower bamboo hoop. Twelve wood wedges between rim and lower hoop to adjust head tension. Rim, upper ring, and wood wedges painted dark red. Wedges strung together by strand of monofiliment. Short rawhide loop (for hanging?) around lower hoop. Rim roughly carved on inside.
InscriptionsIn pencil in two positions on inside of rim and head are matching marks, possibly for alignment of head and rim.
ProvenanceBy 1976, property of a museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; between 1976 and 1981, purchased by a friend for, and later sent, to Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913-1981), New York; 1981, by inheritance to her husband, Joseph R. Coolidge (1916-1999), New York; 1981, gift of Coolidge to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1981)