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Double drum.

Technical description: Wooden concial shell; heads tensioned by leather thongs bound round at waist to further tension the thongs running from head to head. There is some unceratainty as to whether the smaller head is playedHead diameters 190, 110.

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    Circa 1965
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    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    West Nigeria/Nigeria
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  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:555