Culture/People:

Southeast  Search this

Artist/Maker:

120th Engineer Combat Battalion  Search this

Previous owner:

120th Engineer Combat Battalion  Search this

Donor:

Sergeant Debra K. Mooney, Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma  Search this

120th Engineer Combat Battalion  Search this

Title:

Desert Thunder

Object Name:

Drum, stand, and drumsticks

Media/Materials:

Metal, cotton canvas, wood, commercially tanned leather, plastic, nylon cord, adhesive tape, metal nails

Techniques:

Cut, cutout, stretched, nailed, wrapped

Dimensions:

61 x 62 x 45 cm

Object Type:

Music and Sound

Place:

Al Fallujah; Al Anbar Province; Iraq

Date created:

2004

Collection History:

Made by members of the U.S. Army's 120th Engineer Combat Battalion (headquartered in Okmulgee, Oklahoma) and used during their Al Taqaddum Inter-Tribal Powwow, September 17-18, 2004, in Al Taqaddum, Iraq. Donated to NMAI by Battalion members and their chaplain, Sergeant Debra K. Mooney (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), in 2005.

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Catalog Number:

26/5148

Barcode:

265148.000

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Music and Sound

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6d19bf17e-55ee-4970-8b9c-de837a9f4d8f

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_281343