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Long drum.
Technical description: Long single-headed cylindrical drum with monitor lizard membrane nailed to head with 18 wooden pegs in zigzag row. External profile of base of drum flares out slightly. Carved knob on side pierced to take carrying rope which is anchored at other end by hole near base. Diameter of head 200.
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Circa 1980 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Eastern Uganda/Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.211.1-7 Individual single-skin cylindrical drums with membrane nailed to drum
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.211.1-7 Individual single-skin cylindrical drums with membrane nailed to drum
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:height 845.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16451