Frame drum known as “Samoyed drum”
or “shamanic drum”
Russian Federation, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Tersky Raïon, Umba. 1769. Wood, skin, metal and horn Probably acquired by Jean-Louis Pictet from an undocumented old Sami man, given to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure after 1769; bequeathed to the Academic Museum by Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure in 1845 MEG Inv. ETHMU K000265
or “shamanic drum”
Russian Federation, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Tersky Raïon, Umba. 1769. Wood, skin, metal and horn Probably acquired by Jean-Louis Pictet from an undocumented old Sami man, given to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure after 1769; bequeathed to the Academic Museum by Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure in 1845 MEG Inv. ETHMU K000265
