M0017595: Kettle drum, Cataractes region, Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Kettle drum, from the region of the cataracts, Belgian Congo

Photograph of a wooden kettle drum with skin membrane secured with twisted fibre cord. From the Cataractes region of what was then the Belgian Congo, now the Democractic Republic of the Congo. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1933 (accession number R53608). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

October 1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R53608

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.