Tambourine

Chukchee

Chukotka Autonomous Region, Magadan, village Amguema

1920s

Metal; wood; animal derived materials: offals: bladder (walrus); threads: tendinous cord; bone (walrus)

d 43.0; length of handle 11.0

РЭМ 11012-83/1

The drum of the Primorsky Chukchi had a narrow wooden shell, A membrane made of a sea mammal bladde and a small bone or wooden hammer. The drum among the Chukchi, who are characterized by a family type of shamanism, could be used by any member of the family during the rituals of the fishing cycle and during illnesses. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva