carved wooden drum with a skin typanum retained by sennit which passes round the body of the drum over wooden pegs - see photo on back of catalog card; from the Taphonse Collection of musical instruments, Oxford, and depicted in W.D. Webster's Catalogue No. 21, fig. 155.; Label (found inside drum 4/84): "Drum African from Benin Cut out of a solid piece of wood and covered with a human scalp. The beaters are made from the shell of a nut attached to a piece of string. Height 5 - 1/4 inches. Diameter 4 inches ts/-"
Dimensions: H = 13.3; 5 1/4"; D (head) = 10.2 cm; 4"
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Courtesy of: C. J. Philipp, J. W. Kennedy. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/9da5ee31-0201-461d-8e5d-0c89f4bfce08 (accessed on 13 Jan 2022)