Atumpan

Description

The atumpan is the principal talking drum of the Akan people of Ghana. A "talking drum" is used to imitate African languages, often tonal, where words have different meanings depending on the pitches at which they are spoken. This is a goblet-shaped drum, where the body is made of a large barrel drum with a open tubular foot at the base, thus resembling a goblet. The skin membrane and the wooden pegs are missing from this example.