Drum
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- probably Tumaco–La Tolita (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Auction venue
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (Sotheby Parke Bernet/Parke-Bernet Auction House)
- Presenter/funding source
- Donald C. Webster (Donald Colin Webster/Ben Webster), Non-Indian, 1930-1997
- Previous owner
- Arts of the Four Quarters
- Possible owner
- Alan C. Lapiner (Alan Charles Lapiner), Non-Indian, 1933-1975
- Object Name
- Drum
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, paint
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, modeled, painted, perforated
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Place
- La Tolita; Eloy Alfaro Canton; Esmeraldas Province; Ecuador
- Island Name
- Isla de la Tola
- Date created
- 400 BC–AD 500
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Arts of the Four Quarters, a New York City gallery owned by art collector and dealer Alan Lapiner (1933-1975); purchased by MAI at an auction of the inventory of Arts of the Four Quarters held by the Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York City) in 1972 using funds donated by Donald Colin "Ben" Webster (1930-1997. an investment banker and pre-Columbian art collector).
- Catalog Number
- 24/6659
- Barcode
- 246659.000
- See related items
- Tumaco–La Tolita (archaeological culture)
- Music and Sound
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement