Frame drum

Double membrane frame drum, used by shamans. Shallow cylindrical wooden shell. The edges of the skins are lapped round flesh hoops, which are secured by deep wooden counter hoops. These have dogtooth decoration carved into the faces surrounding the heads with alternating triangles of red and green colouration. The counterhoops are braced with a hide lacing, which passes through small holes in each and between them in a V-formation. This is tensioned by a further hide cord, which passes laterally round the outside of the lacing. A single cord snare passes across the centre of each membrane. Each has bones tied laterally, three on one side, four on the other, so that they rest on the skins.