Pate
Slit drum (pate) made of a deeply hollowed out length of wood,accompanied by a single hardwood beater. This served as a signalling device for village meetings, for calling pigs or marking time for ceremonial singing and dancing. Collected by Rev. John Marriott between 1878 and 1904.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1972/5a
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Musical instruments
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- pate
- Simple Name
- drum
- Production Country
- Samoa, Independent State of
- Production Year Low
- 1878
- Production Year High
- 1904
