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Description: | The khamok is held in the left hand and played with the right. The left hand dampens the underside of the membrane to produce different sounds. The drum is used in tokari git (songs accompanied by the tokari lute) and informal devotional music in Assam.
Khamok, khamak, khanjani, khanjari, dhakar or dhuluki, frame drum with a single membrane. The wooden shell is of convex profile, the outside painted yellow, and rust coloured on the inside. The goatskin head is multilayered, with the outer membrane cut away to form a ring over the inner head. The two skins are separated by lengths of reed, ker (Imperata cylindrica), inserted beneath the outer ring, as in the khol drum. The multilayered head is encircled by two strips of cowhide, stitched through holes in the edge. Cowhide lacing in a V pattern is stretched over these strips and over a leather ring further down shell. A small leather handle is also attached to the ring. The shell was carved in Botiamari village and the skins applied in Kamalabari town in Majuli.
caption: Lateral view from right of object no. 2004.572.1.
caption: Lateral view from left of object no. 2004.572.1 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood hide grass 211.311 Single-skin frame drums paint frame drums | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-124542 | Go to resource |
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