drum

Drum (Apentemma) goblet shaped open drum with a hollow pedestal, the main body made of wood (Cordia africana), with six wood pegs (Baphia nitida), a skin head (deer or antelope?) and cord made of two main vegetable fibres (Clappertonia ficfolia and Raphia) - among others - which is around the head of the drum and attached to the pegs; there is a coating on the wood of proteinacious glue and ochre-containing iron oxide pigment. The top half of the drum has the pegs and no decoration, there is a raised ring with vertical lines carved around the middle of the circumference of the drum, and decoration below this raised ring consisting of carved notches, which divides the drum into three vertical sections and within those sections designs with rectangels or squares that are alternately blank or with carved vertical lines. The foot of the drum has no design.