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This instrument was collected by Fred Merfield. It is a double-headed drum with a wooden shell and shaved animal skin membranes, which are attached with twine lacing and vine flesh-hoops. Additional strips of rawhide are used for tensioning. There is a strap of twine attached. The seasonal cracking of the wooden shell gave the drum a unusual water-drop shape.
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1925–36 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Cameroon - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.212.1 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.212.1 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Width: 250mm; Diameter: 220-280mm