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Description: | This instrument was purchased by Jean Jenkins, the Horniman Museum's first curator of musical instruments, in 1973, in a village near Kuala Kerai, Kelatan State. While she was in Malaysia she made a collection of musical instruments and shadow puppets.
Single membrane drum with beater. Body is an earthenware bowl. Two tuning blocks are positioned between the bottom of the body and the tensioning cords. These are pieces of wood which meet in the middle at overlapping wedge-shaped ends. Membranes possibly of cowskin, the main membrane framed by an upper membrane, which has been cut away to form a rim. The membrane is held by a hoop outside the rim of the bowl and is tensioned by narrow strips of rattan, which are threaded around the hoop and are laced around the body and overlapping parts of the sticks. The rattan also has a woven decoration with lateral strips threaded in a band around the sides of the bowl. The upper membrane, rattan and sticks are decorated in patterns with yellow, red and blue/green paint. The playing stick is of bamboo with yellow bands around nodes at the centre and lower end and a round head wrapped in a vegetable fibre thread. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | rubber 211.11 Separate vessel drums wood hide kettledrums ceramic paint textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14096 |
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