Side drum, ca. 1840, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Wood with paint, rope, leather, skin, 18 × 17 in. ( × 4

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Side drum, ca. 1840, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Wood with paint, rope, leather, skin, 18 × 17 in. ( × cm), Membranophone-double-headed / conical drum, Henry H. Prentiss (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1801–1860 Boston), The side drum was associated with the military, especially as a signal instrument for infantry troops, from at least the sixteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century. This large drum is eighteen inches in height with a seventeen inch diameter

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