Hutamba Drum

Hourglass-shaped drums of this type have been called a hutamba drum in Limba, or a tamban in Yalunka. Such drums are usually beaten with a curved, or L-shaped, stick. Animal skin has been stretched over each end, and kept taught with fibre tension cords. The centre of the drum is decorated with blue zigzag lines, and orange dots.

Further Information

• Type: Musical instruments
• Object: Hutamba Drum
• Materials: Wood, Vegetable, organic fibre, Leather, animal skin
• Culture Group: Other, Limba, Yalunka
• Dimensions: 250mm [H] x 120mm [D]
• Production Date: Pre 1906
• Associated Places: Liberia;C+¦te dIvoire
• Associated People: A. E. Johnston
• Museum: British Museum
• Accession Number: BM:Af.1906.1016.4

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