The painted drum / Louise Erdrich.
By: Erdrich, Louise.
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BookPublisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: 277 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780060515102; 0060515104.Subject(s): Indians of North America -- Fiction | Indian reservations -- Fiction | New England -- Fiction | Villages -- Fiction | Native Americans -- New England -- Fiction | Native Americans -- Reservations -- New England -- Fiction | New England -- Fiction | Villages -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | Domestic fictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
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Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
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