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drum

Small drum consisting of half a coconut of pale colour, one side of which is split, resting on the upper end of a hollow cylinder of palm wood with six oblong apertures round the base, one of which is imperfect. A pale membrane covers the coconut.Coconut fibre cords secure the membrane.

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