Image: Rune drum Sápmi MEK

Description: Alleged Sami drum from Torne lappmark. Frame drum. 50 x 31 cm. No 76 in Ernst Manker's Die lappische Zaubertrommel (1938/1950). According to Manker this in an inauthentic drum (unechte trommel). Even though it has some resemblance of this drum described and depicted by Johannes Schefferus in a manuscript around 1673–78, there are to many differences to be true. Manker points out dye, symbols and few traces of use to prove this a imitation. ("Dass diese trommel niemals in der üblichen weise angewendet worden ist, ergibt sich besonders deutlich aus der bemalung, deren farbbelag keinerlei abnutzung erkennen lässt. der fremde farbstoff und oft auch die zeichnung der figuren deuten auf eine imitation, die, wenn auch der rumpf der überlieferung ziemlich nahe belibt, kaum das werk eines lappen ist.") Manker suggests that it might be a copy of a model drum ("Modelltrommel") used to educate or imitate, where all known figures from every drum are shown together. No provenience before 1830 when described at Museum für Volkerkünde, Berlin together with this drum. Now in Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
Title: Rune drum Sápmi MEK
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Author: Photo: Andreas Praefcke
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