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This is a single-hide drum very common in Burkina Faso. The one in the catalogue is a copy of very similar drums, but larger and considered sacred.
Conical and elongated in shape, it has a series of wooden pegs just under the upper edge, to which the membrane is fixed (in a very simple way). The cone trunk ends with a sort of base, narrower compared to the rest of the drum, which ends with a thin metal band, beaten on the lower edge, in contact with the ground. The drum also has a very regular geometric design based on triangles and rhomboids painted on the trunk for decoration.
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