Museum gets first Dong Son Drum
15 March 2007 (Nhan Dan) - The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology receives donation of a Dong Son drum from a donor.
Museum gets first Dong Son Drum
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has added a Dong Son bronze drum to its collection thanks to a generous donation by a private collector.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has received a Dong Son bronze drum from Pham Dung, who teaches at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture. The more-than-2,000-year-old drum to the museum yesterday, nine years after he picked it up in Ninh Binh province.
On the drum, which was used in harvest prayer rituals, are etched four toads with their heads directed clockwise, and concentric circles around a sun in the centre from where a dozen intricate and exact rays spread out towards the edge.
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Tags: Dong Son, Dong Son drum, musical instruments, Ninh Binh province, Pham Dung, Vietnam Archaeology, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
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