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membrane), drawn tight and adhering to the neck of the vessel. Cane loop 
for suspension. Width across membrane, six-and-a-quarter inches. Malay 
child’s toy. 
10. Drum. Malay name, gedombok . Ban Kassot, Rhaman-Jalor 
border (PL XX, Fig. 6). 
Standing single-membrane drum. Body and stand in one piece of 
wood, wine-glass shaped. Body rounded, nine inches wide, open above and 
overlaid with python skin, which is braced with a zigzag lacing of split cane 
to a ring of cane passing round the lower part of the body. The stand is 
hollow, barrel-shaped outside, cylindrical within, with an expanding ring base. 
This drum is used in theatrical performances ; it is probably of Siamese 
origin, the form being well known in Siam proper, where it is frequently very 
elaborately made, and is called tbon, 
11. Another similar drum, but with the addition of wedges for 
tightening the bracing thongs, and with monkey’s skin instead of python’s 
(Robinson coll.) 
* Nos. 10 and u were obtained together and form a pair. Similar 
drums are often played singly by the natives of the Patani States, but in 
theatrical performances, whether the company be Malay or Siamese, the pair 
is almost invariably associated with a third drum, as is welt shown in a model 
of the Senggora type of orchestra now in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The 
third drum has a double membrane, and is of a cylindrical or barrel-shaped 
form ; unlike the pair, which are played with the fingers, it is struck with a 
couple of drumsticks at one end, which is inclined towards the player by means 
of a forked stick on which the instrument is supported behind*’ 
12 . Pair of Drums . Malay. Ban Pra Muang, Trang (PI. XX, 
Fig- 7 )- 
Double-membrane drums. Dimensions of one, twenty-three inches long, 
nine and a half inches across one end and eight and a half across the other. 
The other drum is half-an-inch smaller in all dimensions* Body of hard, 
heavy wood, nearly cylindrical, hollow, both ends overlaid with membrane 
(skin of the ktjang, Cervulus muntjac ). The membranes are braced from one 
to the other with a long zigzag lacing of split cane, their edges being 
strengthened with cords. The bracing-lines are drawn together in pairs by 
sliding loops of cane, by which the braces can be tightened to raise the pitch. 
Both membranes are beaten. These drums were probably made in Kedah ; 
they are rude forms of a well-known Siamese type. 
4 1 was told that in theatrical performances In Kedah drums of this kind 
largely took the place of specimens like Nos. io and n. Both in Upper 
