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Description: | The leather hides are provided by a traditional craftsman, kollan or tolkollan, who specialises in producing drum skins. The kollan will apply up to three layers. Later, the drummer may add a further two or more depending on his preferred quality of sound.
Drum head, tugal (Malayalam language) for valantala (bass) side of centa (cenda or chenda) drum, lapped and glued onto a wooden hoop, valayel. The inside of the head is made from five layers of successively smaller discs of cow or ox hide, stuck together with a glue made of the fruit of a tree. The head is pierced with 12 holes for the rope lacing.
Made from five layers of cow or ox hide glued together in decreasing diameter. Pierced with twelve holes.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 2001.170.2.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 2001.170.2. Image of membrane (museum no. 2001.170.2). | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | drum heads wood hide glue | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-112954 | Go to resource |
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