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This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, and is used to play for the tribe chief when marching. It is a double-headed drum with a wooden shell and shaved animal skin membranes, which are attached with twine lacing and a vine flesh-hoop. Additional strips of hide and three wooden tension pegs/chims are used for tensioning.
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1925–32 - 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: 315mm; Diameter(s): 440mm and 540mm