A Kuba-Bushong Signalling Drum, Langoml

Photographer

Vansina, Jan

Date

• May 1956

Summary

• This drum is all wood with a central slit. It has four tones, two on different sides of the top of the trapezoid and two others near the bottom. It is beaten with rubber-tipped sticks, never by hand. The sounds can carry to villagesas far away as 10-15 miles.