YPM ANT.052625

Description

Drum from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection. Catalog Number: YPM ANT.052625 Description: Drum price about $.20, made of wood and hide in Yunan about five years ago by a man. Its use is in drama and in reading Holy Book by older men. The hide has figures drawn on its surface and the diameter of the drum is 10'--depth 2'. Yunan, China. Materials: Wood; Hide; Metal Function: Musical instruments Culture Group: Asian : China Locality: Asia; China Unit of measurement = millimeters 3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2. 239 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/ This work has been made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor (award no. HAA-266508-19).