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drum

Drum; carved of wood; cylindrical piece of wood, tapering in at one end; skin with bits of fur on it placed over either end, and tied with sinew between the two skins creating network of sinew around body; strip of skin attached at top (possibly once went all the way around drum); two pieces of skin attached to network of sinew on side.

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