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Jar Drum (Tai-pai-hau-nai) used When Girls Grind Corn

Culture: Pueblo, Zuni, Native American
Medium: Pottery, slip
Place Made: Zuni, New Mexico, USA
Dates: 19th century
Dimensions: 15 x 17 x 17 in. (38.1 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 04.297.5279
Credit Line: Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund
Image: Overall, 04.297.5279_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Large drum jar with raptor wings motif around the edge. Goat skin would have been stretched across the top and it beaten with a drum hoop, a sapling curved and tied to form a hoop. Collector, Stewart Culin, noted that this drum was used when girls ground corn.

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