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A Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) dance society drum and supports
A Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) dance society drum and supports
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A Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) dance society drum and supports
Designed with a painted face and wrapped in blue and red trade cloth further adorned with beadwork strips, dewclaws and German silver buttons, flanked by pictorial beaded drops (one with a skull-like visage, the other a hand), together with four beaded and tacked drum supports/stakes and six beaters, structurally sound but water damaged, with losses to the adornments.
drum: height 13 1/2in, diameter 20in
Footnotes:
For a similar example, see Feder, Norman, American Indian Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1965, fig. 220 (Potawatomi Dream Dance Drum, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Cat. No. 1954.1359-c)

Collector's Notes
Accompanied by a paper tag inscribed: 11/13/24 Winnebago Dance Society Drum Probably originally Chippewa - Very Old / Fumigated 5/27/29
The stakes accompanied by a tag inscribed: 11/13/24 Supporting stakes for Winnebago Dance Society Drum (also drum sticks) See Drum Fumig 7/22/29 / Belong with Drum on shelf in washroom (Napthalene 6/13/35)
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A Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) dance society drum and supports

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