skull drum

noun

A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.

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nounskull drum (plural skull drums)

plural skull drums

  1. A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.

    These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.

    1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31
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