The lot features a parfleche rawhide polychrome painted double sided drum in the style and manner of the Plains. The piece was purchased in the 1990’s in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was later said to be from Bill and Kathy Brewer of Greenville, Illinois being a historically 1800’s accurate recreation. The piece shows a wetted and stretched parfleche rawhide being rawhide sewn over an old antique bent wood hoop. Each side is hand painted in typical geometric symbolic imagery commonly seen on 1800’s examples from the Plains tribes of the Northwest. One side shows a dark blue and yellow border with green background with a dark blue beating circle at the center surrounded by a unique four-way arrow pattern. The other side shows a green and red border with natural to yellow background with blue and green beating center circle. The collector of the piece who acquired the drum in the 1990’s has since passed away with the family having someone state the drum likely was a modern creation from Bill and Kathy Brewer. Please examine the drum for age, origin and condition. The piece shows repair like sewn sections, some loss to the rawhide sewing and tears of the hide, the bent wood hoop and drum overall has a bowed curved shape from drying (being warped), the wood has loss to color and age and the paint shows some loss. This comes with a carved wood beater that is artfully carved and tied onto the drum with Indian tanned hide. The tip of the beater has a rounded end, the gripping area is carved in and the end shows the bark still on. The drum measures 17.5”x18.5” and approximately 4” high due to the warping. The beater is 17.75”L.