Brightly colored cords wound around the painted wooden drums.
Across the street the steady throb of another group of men stood pounding rhythmically on wooden drums.
The huge wooden drums in the outer courtyard are sounded, calling the Hindu community to festivals and ceremonies.
It consists of two wooden drums united from a side, with skin heads stretched on their top mouths.
Sometimes wooden drums are partly covered with metal foil.
In small, nicely made wooden drums there were new potatoes no larger than damsons.
Several of the older medicine women took up the wooden drums and began to beat out the rhythms of the women's dance.
"It's one of those wooden drums used to transport heavy cable - looks like a big cotton reel, doesn't it?"
Its musical center are the long, wooden drums.
Music instruments, such as bone whistles and wooden drums, were also found at Hemudu.