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This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and is associated with the Kredi people. It is a double-headed drum with a wooden shell and shaved animal skin membranes, laced with hide. Additional strips of leather/hide are used for tensioning, and there's a strap made of died canvas cloth and hide.
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1925–31 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Cameroon - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.212.12 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, both heads played
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.212.12 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, both heads played
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Height: 400mm; Diameter: 395-400mm