Ambaubas or Drum - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 43679 | |||||
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Plant Name | 153.01 URTICACEAE Cecropia peltata | Entry Book Number | 19.1853 | |
| Artefact Name | Ambaubas or Drum | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Ambaubas or Drum | Geography Description | Brazil | ||
| Uses | Ambaubas or DrumUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Extra-large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Spruce, Richard | Donor No | 152 | ||
| Donor Date | 12/03/1853 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Spruce, Richard | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Used by the Indians of Sao Gabriel, Brazil in their Dabocuris or Festas. These drums are hollowed out by means of fire and the lower ends closed with fresh leaves beaten hard with a pestle. The performers in the dances beat them on the gr, ound in unison with the movements of their feet.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R (1851-1855) Journal entry for 17-18 April 1851. Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p 52. :x0Dx0AAmbuaba,, or drum, made of the trunk of Cecropia peltata; those of the men were about 3 feet long and 5 inches in diameter; the diameter of the bore being about 4 inches; those of the boys were smaller. They had been bored by means of fire, and the lowerend close, d with leaves beat down with a pestle. Two oblong holes were cut near each other adjacent to upper end at tube, by which it was held, the thumb being inserted into one hole and the fingers into the other. The lower end for the breadth of a few inches wa, s painted black and about the space of a foot near middle was painted with fantastic devices to taste of fabricator. At length they appeared in a file, beating the ground with their drums and formed themselves in a ring still drumming away.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APhotograph, ed and catalogued in November 2016 as part of the Musical Instrument Interface for Museums and Collections (MINIM-UK) project, Royal College of Music, www.minim-uk.orgx0Dx0A | ||||