Drums Collection (page 2)

Nautch or Ramjani girls dancing to music from kuplyans or bin, dhol drums, tabla, and other string and percussion instruments

Chinese musical instruments: dagu drums 1, 2, 3, bianzhong 4, 7, bells 5, 6, and guzheng zither 9, 10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

The despair of the sun-worshipping Peruvian Incas during a lunar eclipse. The people bang drums and tambourines, whip dogs and scream to prevent the eclipse

Festival in honour of the Serpent God (centered around Ouidah, Benin). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Minister fanning sacred flame with flabellum
Festival of Isis, with minister fanning the sacred flame with flabellum and second minister with sword or scepter. Devotees playing sistrum, horns and drums

Festival of Isis, with devotees praying and making offerings, playing sistrum, horns and drums, and sacred ibis. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

The Douglas Room, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland, with a display of helmets and drums. Date: circa 1905

Von Hindenburgh and Gessler, Germany
The German President, Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, and Minister of Defence, Otto Gessler, at an event in Germany. 1925

R A Lister Military Band, Roman Baths, Bath. Date: 1935

America - Burgoyne Surrenders At Saratoga
The Surrender Of British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York 1777

Tatler cover Party Time 1961
Front cover of The Tatler from December 1961 featuring a woman utterly absorbed in playing the drums. Date: 1961

Musician with large drum, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is wearing traditional native costume, while the drum is a modern French military instrument. Date: 1922

Drummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast, West Africa
Drummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast (then part of the British Empire), West Africa. Each chief had his own drum call or motto. 1922

Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, Nigeria, West Africa
Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, northern Nigeria, West Africa. One blows a trumpet while the other accompanies him on a drum. 1922

Feast day near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, South America -- indigenous people in large feathered headdresses, carrying large drums. Date: 1922

The origin of Hunting the Wren - The Bird awakens the sleeping Danes. 1850

Military band of cats on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Birthday card, Hope your birthdays a Smash Hit! 20th century

Johann Strauss conducting an orchestra. circa 1898

View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, WW1
View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, First World War. In the foreground on the right are a few band members with their music instruments, mostly drums. circa 1915-1917

78 rpm Cover Sleeve, Embassy Records, Music for You. 1950s

London Fire Brigade band, group photo, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. Date: circa 1920s

Euterpean Band, Westerville, Ohio, USA
Members of the Euterpean Band (nicknamed the Rube Band of Otterbein), Westerville, Ohio, USA. Date: 1907

Daily Chronicle newspaper 1900
Making curved plates for offset printing, on cylinders. Date: 1900

15TH C ARAB WARRIORS
Arab warriors from around the 15th century on horseback with banners, trumpets and drums. Date: 15th century

Bleaching cotton
Using wash-wheels for dyeing and bleaching cotton Date: 1830s

RACIAL /s AFRICA / BARI-NEG
War dance of the Bari-Neger of Mozambique, south-east Africa: the musicians work the warriors up into a frenzy of blood lust Date: 1890S

Drummer, - 1867
D was a Drummer Who played with a grace... Date: 1867

REYKJAVIK STORE 1876
From drums to rum, you may buy just about anything in this general store in Reykjavik, Iceland Date: 1876

FRENCH MINERS STRIKE
Striking French miners process through the Pas de Calais. Date: 1906

HOGARTH SOUTHWARK FAIR
Southwark Fair Various performers compete to attract the publics attention. Date: 1733

MEDICINE MAN & DANCERS MEDICINE MAN & DANCERS
Central African medicine man with apparatus and attendant musicians and dancers

Drummer-boy of the British Army Date: circa 1850

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 6
6. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter Date: 1747

Harry Yould and his Blackpool Banjoliers Banjo Orchestra. His wife is shown here playing the piano! Date: circa 1950s

Musicians and Dancer - Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1909

A rice raft - west of Georgetown, South Carolina, USA
WW1 era - For God and Kaiser - A young officer in the German Military - 7th Company of the Guards Fusilier Regiment. Date: circa 1914

Girl Kindergarten Orchestra - Musical group Date: circa 1910s

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Japanese Airmen Date: circa 1942

Musical frogs on eight Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

GERMAN DRESS 1500-1550
German costumes of the first half of the 16th century: Knights, Nobles, Court Dress, Soldiers, Standard bearers & a drummer. N.B slashed clothing - Landsknecht. Date: 16th century

Gata Bera drummers and Sinhala Dancers - Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1907

Group of African Pygmies - Bokane (Chief), Kuarke (Princess), Mongonga, Mafutiminga, Matuka and Amuriape. Colonel James Harrison returned in 1905 to England (from the Congo) with these six pygmies

c. 1890s - tribal dancers in costume, drums and spears
c.1890s - tribal dancers in costume with drums and spears, unidentified location but from a series of India images

Indian musicians, drums and stringed instrument. Vintage 19th century photograph

British flag and drum with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a drum, with two children playing cymbals and trumpet. Date: circa 1890s

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