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Pegged drum

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MediumPalm, wood
ClassificationsSound Devices
Credit LineGift of Harold Adams
Object number1940.49.1
DescriptionOf coconut palm (?) wood. Head at one end only, covered with skin still retaining some of animals short tan hair, held taut by 5 hewn pegs driven diagonally down into side of drum. Opposite end is smaller and carved with two onramental ridges 7cms and 9cms from the bottom, hole in bottom, for resonance.
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