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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 130364, member: 45&quot;]It just seems to have that paint-stained &quot;antiqued&quot; look associated with modern decorator items from Bali, that are in the style of older items, but not.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell what kind of wood it is from the photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Check out old &quot;tribal wood slit drums&quot; on line.&nbsp; There are some great images from museum collections, with a wide range of styles and sizes, from small hand-held ones to large village drums, which were used in West Africa, as well as in parts of Papua New Guinea, to communicate long distances.&nbsp; A good book dealing with that type of slit drum is <u>The Drum Language of the Lokelele Tribe</u>, by John F. Carrington. </p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in slit drums started years ago, when one was used at Aggie Grey&#039;s in Samoa, to signal meal time, back in the mid-&#039;70s, when Aggie herself ran the hotel.&nbsp; The sound of the drum is one I&#039;ll never forget.</p><p>(Here&#039;s a 1982 New York Times article that captures the feel of the place, and mentions the drums: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/09/travel/aggie-grey-s-a-fabled-inn.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/09/travel/aggie-grey-s-a-fabled-inn.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/09/travel/aggie-grey-s-a-fabled-inn.html?pagewanted=all</a> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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