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drum

Drum; made of pottery; lightly fired; round bottom tapering in to vertical neck; bowl protruding out one side of neck with god's face on it; skin mounted on circular reed frame stretched over neck, tied with string down length of body to circle of wood at bottom; painted with white stripes.

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