Slit drum

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Title

Slit drum

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a slit drum from Papua New Guinea. It is a percussion instrument made from wood. A Nurse in the Pacific This slit drum once belonged to Wendy Smith, a nurse who worked for the Red Cross movement both in New Zealand and overseas for about 21 years. She began working in the Pacific region in 1979, and was in Tonga when Tropical Cyclone Isaac devastated the Ha'apai group of islands in 1982. The cyclone, killed six people, and left 45,000 homeless. Wendy along with colleagues offered seve...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1980s?

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1009474

Related subjects

wood / musical instruments / Melanesian / Oceanic / Papua New Guinean / woodcarving / drumming / Papua New Guinea

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