Desert Thunder
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Southeast
- Artist/Maker
- 120th Engineer Combat Battalion
- Previous owner
- 120th Engineer Combat Battalion
- Donor
- Sergeant Debra K. Mooney, Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma
- 120th Engineer Combat Battalion
- 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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- Date created
- 2004
- Catalog Number
- 26/5148
- Barcode
- 265148.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- 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
- Place
- Al Fallujah; Al Anbar Province; Iraq
- See related items
- Southeast
- Music and Sound
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_281343
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6d19bf17e-55ee-4970-8b9c-de837a9f4d8f
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